"For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-bo rder cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

John Ridley

#Children Quotes #Real Quotes #Kids Quotes

“Doorâ€™s locked,â€ he said. â€œAnd we have unfinished business.”
“I don't really watch too many remakes. I saw Scorsese's version of Cape Fear, which was good. That was a good remake.”
“As the therapeutic relationship is established and progress occurs in problem areas, the therapist can "lead" and "push" the adolescent toward abstract reasoning skill.”

Source : "Adolescence: Guiding Youth Through the Perilous Ordeal". Book by Miller Newton, 1995.
“I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.”
“Entrepreneurship is not a civilized joust. It is streetfighting.”
“I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.”
“You just never know when it might be cookie time. And, that is what the dogs have taught me.”
“Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?”

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