Black Teachers Quotes

#1. We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary.

Trevor Phillips

#2. So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#3. 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.

Lisa Delpit

#4. Words have power. And I may be privileged and have a higher IQ than any of our former teachers, but when people look at me? They see a black, male teenager. And there is nothing quite as frightening to some folks as an angry young black man.

Michelle Hodkin

#5. The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.

Marian Wright Edelman

#6. Healthy relationships require transformed hearts, not just transformed brains.

Steve Corbett

#7. Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.

David Oyelowo

#8. Unionized teachers have destroyed much of the state school system.

Conrad Black

#9. The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect. Consequently, when the pony was faced with conditions different from those to which he was accustomed, he showed little adaptability.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#10. When I do all-hands calls - and I do a lot of all-hands calls - and I look out across 50 people, or 5,000 people, I see United States sailors. I do not see male sailors, or female sailors, and I do not think anybody else does, either.

Ray Mabus

#11. And a word carries far-very far-deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

Joseph Conrad

#12. Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.

Hermann Hesse

#13. My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her ears and then neon orange to the frizzy ends. I can't decide if she had pissed off her hairdresser or is morphing into a monarch butterfly. I call her Hairwoman.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#14. If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?

W.E.B. Du Bois

#15. This generation of little children is the 7th Generation. Not just Indian children but white, black, yellow and red. Our grandfathers said the 7th generation would provide new spiritual leaders, medicine people, doctors, teachers and our great chiefs. There is a spiritual rebirth going on.

Clyde Bellecourt