Delpit Quotes

#1. Imagine that each time you inhale, that the universe is breathing into you, and as you exhale it is breathing out of you.

Andrew Weil

#2. My heart is in this work, for it is not a question of 'Will we win' or 'Will we lose.' We must win, and that is all there is to it.

William Kalush

#3. By the time they were done Peter realized that something significant had occurred, an acknowledgment that once made, could not be unmade. The body they had buried might have been a viral, but the person they had buried was a man.

Justin Cronin

#4. I've always loved who I loved, and it never mattered to me where they were from. That's how it should be: wherever your heart tells you to go, you go.

Rutina Wesley

#5. There is no achievement gap at birth.

Lisa Delpit

#6. When one 'we' gets to determine standards for all 'we's' then some 'we's' are in trouble.

Lisa Delpit

#7. 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.

Lisa Delpit

#8. 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.

Lisa Delpit

#9. In order to teach you, I must know you.

Lisa Delpit

#10. Open, he urged her in a soft voice.
Samson to Delilah

Tina Folsom

#11. A second reason African American students are not excelling is that we have all been affected by our society's deeply ingrained bias of equating blackness with inferiority.

Lisa Delpit

#12. You have not read till you understand the spirit of the matter.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#13. Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

John Milton

#14. A culture is made - or destroyed - by its articulate voices.

Ayn Rand

#15. 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

#16. We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

Margaret Thatcher

#17. We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other European power.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#18. In other words, every human brain has the built-in capacity to become, over time, what we demand of it. No ability is fixed. Practice can even change the brain.

Lisa Delpit

#19. A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Friedrich Nietzsche