Clint Smith A Talk to Teachers’ showed me that a teacher’s work should reject the false pretense of being apolitical and, instead, confront the problems that shape our students’ lives. – Clint Smith Apolitical Quotes Confront Quotes Lives Quotes Pretense Quotes Reject Quotes Shape Quotes Students Quotes Talk Quotes Teachers Quotes Sometimes sports serves as a reprieve from politics, and sometimes it serves as an extension of it. Young people are constantly absorbing – through media, textbooks, and policy – the myths of American exceptionalism; for black children, this means that what they are taught in class does not match the world that they navigate daily.
FutureStephen Fry When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel. – Stephen Fry
Shinsuke Nakamura I use every kind of emotion in my wrestling, so that’s why people call me the ‘King of Strong Style.’ – Shinsuke Nakamura
Ottessa Moshfegh I don’t care about being a literary personality – that doesn’t appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn’t appeal to me. I actually don’t feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, ‘Whatever.’ – Ottessa Moshfegh
Lee Isaac Chung I know a lot of people in my old town in Arkansas are big Trump supporters, and in a way I try to understand them. I try not to judge them for that. – Lee Isaac Chung
Justin Tranter I won’t do press anymore unless I can talk about the homophobia and let queer people know our ideas are mainstream. – Justin Tranter
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