Quotes by Johnnetta B. Cole

Johnnetta B. Cole

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

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Half

World

Crisis’ seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.

Community

People

Racism

Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

Groups

Tasks

Ties

I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal racial segregation or you called it apartheid, it was the same injustice.

Grew

Injustice

Segregation

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain’t genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

Dad

People

Racist

if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.

Bmw

Children

Rvs

Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.

Example

Secret Love

Want

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

Alive

America

Racism

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I’ll show you someone destined for failure.

Failure

Inspirational

Mediocrity

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

Education

Reality

World

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Dad

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Generosity

Giving

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Groups

Half

Honesty

Injustice

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Kings

Knowing

Mediocrity

Men

Mother And Daughter

Mother Daughter

New Day

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Queens

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Racist

Rap

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Segregation

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Quotes by Johnnetta B. Cole

Johnnetta B. Cole

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

Crisis’ seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.

Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal racial segregation or you called it apartheid, it was the same injustice.

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain’t genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.

Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I’ll show you someone destined for failure.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

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