Lisa Delpit Quotes

#1. 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

#2. He got up slowly, not bothering to curse himself for forgetting the stop where he had to disembark. He was not used to leaving things behind; he wondered how the bus stop escaped.

Faraaz Kazi

#3. 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

#4. Nigeria has its problems, nobody denies that, but there is a surge of spiritual, I would say, Christian dynamics that are awesome.

Reinhard Bonnke

#5. I have a restaurant in Milan, and Paper Moon is five minutes away from my hotel, so I always go there for lunch. It's a casual place that serves good salad, pizza and pasta; the space is tight with tables close together, and it feels buzzy. Food comes out fast, too.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#6. Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

Mark Twain

#7. 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

#8. You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.

Buck Owens

#9. It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.

Charlie Munger

#10. 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

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

Lisa Delpit

#12. Two worlds one family

Pikachuuu

#13. Toni hears voices," said Trapp. "But who is this Dr. Ellsworth to tell her she's a schizophrenic? Maybe she just perceives better than the rest of us. Maybe the voices she hears are just uncommunicated ideas, floating free.

Louis Sachar

#14. 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

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

Lisa Delpit

#16. Make deals with people, not paper.

Penn Jillette

#17. A lot of people don't like me. I take that as evidence that I have done something beautifully different or something extraordinary.

Daniel Pearce

#18. It slid away from his left boot which was poised with the trigger cocked

Barry Davies

#19. There is no achievement gap at birth.

Lisa Delpit

#20. Birth deals us out a hand of cards, but as important as their value is the place we are dealt them in.

David Mitchell

#21. She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people ...

Nicholas Sparks