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Geoffrey Canada
Geoffrey Canada
American Activist
Born: Jan 13, 1952
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People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better. Geoffrey Canada
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Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize - and sometimes you have to cauterize - the ones who really are against change. They're the kind of person who, if you tell them it's raining outside, they'll fight you tooth and nail. Geoffrey Canada
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One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility.' Geoffrey Canada
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Good dental care doesn't make you a good student, but if your tooth hurts, it's hard to be a good student. Geoffrey Canada
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How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing this year that they did 50 years ago when it didn't work then, and no one feels any pressure to change? Geoffrey Canada
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At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible. Geoffrey Canada
Wonderful School Impossible Difficult Everybody Once Way Through Almost Particular Massachusetts Sort Because Sounds Very Manage Just Where Anything Which Worked Convincing Hard Thing Early Consensus
When I first found out that Superman wasn't real, I was about maybe eight. And I was talking to my mother about it. And she was like, 'No, no, no. There's no Superman.' And I started crying. I really thought he was coming to rescue us. The chaos, the violence, the danger. No hero was coming. Geoffrey Canada
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Poverty places not just one or two obstacles but multiple obstacles in a child's pathway to what we would consider to be regular development - cognitively, intellectually and emotionally. Geoffrey Canada
Poverty Consider One Or Two Would Emotionally Development Obstacles Intellectually Child Pathway Just Just One Places Regular Multiple Two
My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer. Geoffrey Canada
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There's not a day that goes by that I don't draw on my undergraduate background in psychology. Geoffrey Canada
Day Background Draw Undergraduate Goes Psychology
My contract with my teachers is fair, and is two pages. The union contract is 200 pages. You cannot manage your business when you cannot make any decision without going back to 200 pages worth of stuff. Geoffrey Canada
You Business Worth Decision Back Stuff Fair Make Without Contract Manage Any Going Cannot Pages Your Teachers Union Two
Teachers need to be paid like professionals. Geoffrey Canada
Like Paid Teachers Professionals Need
Young people will tell you, if you're not prepared to write the most violent, the most misogynistic, the most horrible kinds of rhymes and scenarios, you are not going to get air play. Geoffrey Canada
You People Will Young Air Tell Kinds Horrible Scenarios Write Most Get Going Rhymes Young People Prepared Play Violent
People talk about Wall Street greed, but one of the things many people don't understand is that there are a lot of organizations that have been the recipient of largess from the same Wall Street. Geoffrey Canada
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It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem. Geoffrey Canada
Important Safe Permanent Spaces Harlem
Lots of boys pick strong messages about who they are and who they want to be from the media. Geoffrey Canada
Strong About Pick Messages Boy Lots Want Who Media
Movies portray men as tough guys. Geoffrey Canada
Men Tough Guys Movies Portray
Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male. Geoffrey Canada
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You don't need someone destroying you when your own people are the worst messengers possible. And this is what black people in America have not come to grips with. Geoffrey Canada
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Middle-class families know education begins at birth. Geoffrey Canada
Education Birth Know Families Begins
The system decides you can't run schools in the summer. Geoffrey Canada
You Summer System Run Schools Decide
An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education. Geoffrey Canada
Education Day School Ensure Administrators Ability Gives Well-Rounded Get Children Extended
Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science. Geoffrey Canada
Education Today Science Physical Physical Education Studies Sacrificing Like Schools Cover Math Subjects Arts Children Social English Many Basic
In two-parent households, women have increasingly entered the workplace, and in single-parent households, there is even more of a need for the adults to work. That means parents do not fully control their own schedule and have to scramble to find high-quality after-school options. Geoffrey Canada
Work Women Parents Own Control Increasingly Entered Find More High-Quality Schedule Adult Households Options Scramble After-School Means Fully Workplace Even Need

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