Levi Rogers

“I write these words because what we need to know at a very deep level is that African American children do not come into this world at a deficit. There is no “achievement gap” at birth—at”
― Lisa Delpit, "Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children

“A second reason African American students are not excelling is that we have all been affected by our society’s deeply ingrained bias of equating blackness with inferiority.”
― Lisa Delpit, "Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children

“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”
― Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

“In other words, every human brain has the built-in capacity to become, over time, what we demand of it. No ability is fixed. Practice can even change the brain.”
― Lisa Delpit, "Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children