Donna Brazile Quotes

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

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-border 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.

Good students are good at all things.

The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.

I made good grades in school.

There are only two positions, either you support multiculturalism in American education, or you support the maintenance of white supremacy.

We have to prepare our students so that they become able to face any challenge rising in any environment and anywhere in the world.

I'm read in the Caribbean with justice, with fairness. What I expect it to do is to encourage articulacy in the young.

It's important that we challenge the culture of low expectations. You need to believe every child can do well.

While I was in school, a local magazine picked the 10 best students, and they picked me and profiled me in the magazine.

All of our schools should be good enough to attract a healthy racial mix, which, I believe, leads to the most effective learning for everybody.

I did well in school and was able to excel in those areas where I knew I needed to be good at.

People have not really noticed community colleges, but they are where students really become successful.

While the most disadvantaged students - most often poor students of color - receive the most considerable academic benefits from attending diverse schools, research demonstrates that young people in general, regardless of their background, experience profound benefits from attending integrated schools.

We decided a number of years ago we could do a better job at diversity. It was going to be one of the growth areas available to us. There are a variety of initiatives to create more awareness with African-Americans and Hispanics and anyone else.

You cannot possibly be reaching the needs of your consumers when the makeup of your company is not reflective of the community you serve.

It's interesting because diversity doesn't just happen by garnishing your omelet with a little bit of parsley. Diversity happens because the people that are telling the stories - the writers, directors, storytellers - want to tell their story.

The business case for diverse employment is not a matter we can ignore. When the business case merges with values and national objectives, this serves as a wake up call for us all. We cannot ignore the opportunity; we cannot ignore the commitment.

My students are noticed by the people I respect from the quality of their work.

You have a responsibility to make inclusion a daily thought, so we can get rid of the word 'inclusion.'

Administrations and administrative faculty work very hard to see that schools are diverse as much as possible.

When I choose a role, what I'm looking for is the ability is to tell our stories. Me being a black woman, that's just a given. It's going to be a part of any role I do, making sure I tell it truthfully and nuanced and in a way that many people can relate to.

Media gatekeepers - editors, publishers, film studios and the like - need to begin investing in talent behind the scenes, developing and resourcing marginalized voices to tell their own stories. At the end of the day, it's about the story and what will enable the audience to truly see, understand, and know the life and times of the subject.

In middle school and high school, I had straight A's, and I graduated at the top of my year. On the flip side of that, I struggled with very severe performance anxiety.

I'm not asking for there to be all black writer's rooms or all Asian writer's rooms, or all white - I want them all to be diverse. When it's diverse, you're going to have a completely different dynamic. Everybody feels othered. Nobody feels like they've got the upper hand.