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A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.


Jonathan Kozol


#almost #been #blame #cases #children

At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment.


Jonathan Kozol


#black #children #class #enrollment #i

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.


Jonathan Kozol


#after #between #black #black and white #board

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.


Jonathan Kozol


#homelessness #housing #lack

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.


Michael Tilson Thomas


#content #disguises #extreme #important #lack

I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.


Benjamin F. Wade


#appears #believed #black #born #declaration

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.


Pete Townshend


#black and white #called #came #cinema #color

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.


Fran Lebowitz


#good #interesting #lack #meat #purpose

When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.


Mort Walker


#black #flap #having #i #increase

I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in the air, but they don't think about the actual people, and the families, and the relationships.


Kerry Washington


#abstract #actual #air #black #families






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