Academic achievement Quote by Beverly Daniel Tatum

“If young people are exposed to images of African American academic achievement in their early years, they won’t have to define school achievement as…

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

“McWhorter claims that low black educational achievements are not the result of racism but of an attitude within the black community that academic achievement…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

Young people are constantly absorbing - through media, textbooks, and policy - the myths of American exceptionalism; for black children, this means that what…

— Clint Smith

“The so-called education of Negro college graduates leads them to throw away opportunities which they have and to go in quest of those which…

— Carter G. Woodson

“Americans are generally incapable of perceiving class differences among blacks and are quick to ascribe antisocial underclass behavior to all African Americans.”

— Leon Dash

African American students have less access to algebra and more access to seclusion and restraint than do their white peers. The significant disparity in…

— Chaka Fattah

“African-Americans are just as likely to harbor racist attitudes as white people.”

— Ben Carson

“wherever a school is actually teaching boys and girls to do something that the community wants, it is seldom that that school fails to…

— Booker T. Washington

Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and…

— Bell Hooks

Many black youths are defying stereotypes, achieving good academic results, finding employment and contributing to their communities. But helping those who fall behind is…

— David Lammy

“Resisting the stereotypes and affirming other definitions of themselves is part of the task facing young Black women in both White and Black communities.”

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

[Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone…

— Frantz Fanon