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- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.
- Nov 07, 2020
Silence is the residue of fear.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents raised me and my siblings in an armor of advice, an ocean of alarm bells so someone wouldn't steal the breath from our lungs, so that they wouldn't make a memory of this skin.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we say that black lives matter, it's not because others don't: it's simply because we must affirm that we are worthy of existing without fear, when so many things tell us we are not.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to live in a world where my son will not be presumed guilty the moment he is born, where a toy in his hand isn't mistaken for anything other than a toy.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009.
- Just Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oppression doesn't disappear just because you decided not to teach us that chapter.
- Dragging
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don't forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.
- Founding Fathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The presidents and the founding fathers and all of the people we sort of raise up as false idols, we don't wrestle with the fact that many of these were brilliant men, but they were also men with deep prejudices against people of color, against indigenous people, against women.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.
- Contributing
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most significant factors contributing to the chasm of educational opportunity is the way that schools are funded.
- Choices
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many ways, the very notion of school choice operates under a false pretense - an assumption that every child has the same set of choices to make and the same places to choose from.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until lawmakers can disentangle property taxes from public education, inequalities - perpetuated by the Supreme Court and Congress - will persist.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Schools shouldn't have to choose between serving a student with special needs or cutting an art class, laying off teachers or using outdated textbooks. But these are the positions that far too many schools have been placed in, and only a meaningful acknowledgment of the problem can begin the process of getting them out.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power of literature does not lie in resonance with the particular but the way that the particular speaks to a broader, more universal truth.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020