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More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I…
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We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do…
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What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe.…
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Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of…
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I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
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The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is…
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If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand…
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As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are…
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Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value…
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Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image…
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So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge…
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Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
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If I’m a young black man in South Central L.A., where poverty is rampant and unemployment is skyrocketing, I see that Washington’s…
— Bryant Gumbel
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I don't believe in aliens. I don't think aliens or ghosts like black people. We never get abducted; our houses never get…
— Xzibit
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It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know…
— Larry Niven
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If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in…
— Danny Glover
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I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started…
— Antoine Fuqua
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits…
— Forest Whitaker
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I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to…
— Naomi Wallace
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Nobody I know got killed in South Central LA. Today was a good day.
— Ice Cube
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I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley.
— Cheech Marin
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South Central is just who I am.
— Ice Cube
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a…
— Ice Cube
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Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins,…
— Ice Cube
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