Eric Hanushek, an economist at Stanford, estimates that the students of a very bad teacher will learn, on average, half a year’s worth of material in… - Malcolm Gladwell

Successful people don’t do it alone. Where they come from matters. They’re products of particular places and environments.

If a revolution is not accessible, tangible, and replicable, how on earth can it be a revolution?

If you are a white person who would like to treat black people as equals in every way — who would like to have a set of associations with blacks that are as positive as those that you have with whites — it requires more than a simple commitment to equality. It requires that you change your life so that you are exposed to minorities on a regular basis and become comfortable with them and familiar with the best of their culture, so that when you want to meet, hire, date, or talk with a member of a minority, you aren’t betrayed by your hesitation and discomfort. Taking rapid cognition seriously — acknowledging the incredible power, for good and ill, that first impression play in our lives — requires that we take active steps to manage and control those impressions.