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“I could see how we are taught to think about racism only as discrete acts committed by individual people, rather than as a complex, interconnected system. And in light of so many white expressions of resentment toward people of color, I realized that we see ourselves as entitled to, and deserving of, more than people of color deserve; I saw our investment in a system that serves us. I also saw how hard we worked to deny all this and how defensive we became when these dynamics were named. In turn, I saw how our defensiveness maintained the racial status quo.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“...the notion of the classroom as an intellectual community gets lost when conference rooms by the principal's office are turned into data rooms - rooms in which walls, floor to ceiling, are covered with test scores of every child in the school - and "Days Until the TEST" banners greet students and parents as they enter the school. That, at the very least, suggests the school is more interested in making sure students pass a test than in creating an intellectual community.”
― Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst, Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading

“Maybe my person and I won’t fit together like two halves of the same whole, but neither did Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in You’ve Got Mail or Sleepless in Seattle. They didn’t erase each other’s pain; they just made it bearable.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Waiting for Tom Hanks

“I recall a Tao of Mindy phrase: ‘You can’t polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello