Carl Hart Quotes
-
My research has taught me many important lessons, but perhaps none more important than this: drug effects, like semesters, are predictable; police interactions with black people are not.
-
I have a hard time arguing with stupid people.
-
The listening community has the obligation of distinguishing informed opinion from tweets.
-
Most of the stuff that parades as drug education in this country is just rubbish with no foundation in evidence.
-
I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.
-
If we stay focused on data and the real issues, we can tailor our inventions to enhance public health and safety while decreasing the likelihood of racial discrimination.
-
I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness.
-
Number one in high school, when I was sort of entrenched in the street life, if you will, the major thing that kept me plugged in the mainstream was athletics. I played basketball throughout high school. I also played football, but I played basketball throughout high school.
-
In the hood, you have a problem with somebody, you have to deal with it. The outcome is pretty immediate.
-
All children will do things that you may not want them to. That's part of parenting.
-
You have to be open-minded, and you have to be critical, and you have to let go of your predispositions about what you've been told that doesn't have foundations in evidence.
-
If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.
-
Researchers, treatment providers - we all have a stake in the drug hysteria game.
-
All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we wouldn't have had subsidized housing. Most of my childhood, we had a two-bedroom apartment, but eventually we got into the projects, where we had four bedrooms. That was great.
-
I strongly discourage any intellectuals, regardless of race, from speaking on matters for which they have limited or no expertise.
-
It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.
-
One of the things we know about people is that people are not very courageous in general.
-
It takes some courage to say you were wrong.
-
As a parent, a scientist, and educator, what I know is that it's always better to provide the education that will help keep my children - all people - safe, even if I don't want them to engage in the behavior.
-
It is always a good time when I visit the 'Melissa Harris Perry Show' on MSNBC.
-
Drug reformers need to be hyper-vigilant. I understand that when you've been oppressed so long, so thirsty for truth, that when someone comes along and gives you a sip of water, you think that they're the savior. But in that water there may be cyanide.
-
The notion that scientists are dispassionate - first of all, that's wrong. Scientists are extremely passionate.
-
If drugs are bad, any respectable society should do something to deal with them.
-
I went to college in the Air Force, and I went to college at the University of Maryland, who had college campuses on Air Force bases.