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My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities. ”
People say a lot of mess about celebrities. In the social media world, celebrities are able to go online and see nice things and horrible things written about them - but these people on the Internet wouldn't have the guts to say it to their face. ”
The more celebrities I meet, the more disappointed I get in celebrity culture. ”
I think that regarding plastic surgery, a lot of women that hate to cop to the fact that they would get it done, might be saying no to it for other reasons, like, maybe it's against their culture, or they don't have the money for it. ”
The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization. ”
There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact. ”
We're trying to be the top employer of recent grads in the country. Size gives us leverage to have a tangible impact on school systems. ”
Teach for America recruits top recent college grads, young professionals, people we believe are the U.S.'s most promising future leaders, and asks them to commit two years to teach in high-need urban and rural communities. ”
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable. ”
The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be. ”