Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.
If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.
We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs. To put our beliefs on hold is to cease to exist as ourselves for a moment -- and that is not easy. . . but it is the only way to learn what it might feel like to be someone else and the only way to start the dialogue.
Progressive white teachers seem to say to their black students 'Let me help you find your voice. I promise not to criticize one note as you search for your song'. But the black teachers say 'I've heard your song loud and clear. Now I want to teach you to harmonize with the rest of the world.
Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence.
In order to teach you, I must know you.
We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs.
Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain.
If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher. . . It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before.