Chaka Fattah Quotes
To see, once again, that African American students are more likely to have a limited math curriculum and an underpaid novice teacher is disheartening and should be a call to action for policymakers and educators.Chaka Fattah
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
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Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
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Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.
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When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.
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What makes 'Pootie Tang' the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it's a joke action film. It slides through enough African-American pop culture signifiers to raise laughs out of those who will appreciate the references; it revels in more cheese per square inch than a soul food diner.
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The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
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It is a fact that no man improves much after the age of 60 and after 65, most suffer a really alarming decline. I could give some examples, but at the advice of my publisher will refrain from doing so.
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Whenever I've met with businesses that want to locate in Colorado, the state's infrastructure for moving people and products is a top concern.
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To see, once again, that African American students are more likely to have a limited math curriculum and an underpaid novice teacher is disheartening and should be a call to action for policymakers and educators.
Chaka Fattah
