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Movies portray men as tough guys.

~Geoffrey Canada

Topics: Guys Men Movies Portray Tough

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Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

~Geoffrey Canada

Topics: Absent Boy Fathers Figure Grow Grow Up Hardest Homes Like Male Means Models Out Role Role Models Search Up Want Who

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It's just becoming more acceptable for girls to react violently.

~Geoffrey Canada

Topics: Acceptable Becoming Girl Just More React Violently

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You don't need someone destroying you when your own people are the worst messengers possible. And this is what black people in America have not come to grips with.

~Geoffrey Canada

Topics: America Black Come Destroying Grips Need Own People Possible Someone Worst You Your

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The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to broader issues of access and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, and to the marketing efforts of soda companies themselves.

~Geoffrey Canada

Topics: Access Alone Broader Cannot Communities Companies Consumer Consumption Efforts Explained Foods Healthy Individual Issues Linked Low-Income Marketing Neighborhoods Our Poorest Preferences Rates Rather Soda Themselves

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I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.

~Geoffrey Canada

Topics: Around Because Been Before Boston College Education Graduate Graduate School Graduated Harvard Inner-City Interesting Job Kids Left Me Never Poor Really School Teaching Then Took White Whites

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When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks.

~Geoffrey Canada

Topics: Began Eliminated Folks Huge Numbers Poverty Taking Vow Which Working

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An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.

~Geoffrey Canada

Topics: Ability Administrators Children Day Education Ensure Extended Get Gives School Well-Rounded

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In two-parent households, women have increasingly entered the workplace, and in single-parent households, there is even more of a need for the adults to work. That means parents do not fully control their own schedule and have to scramble to find high-quality after-school options.

~Geoffrey Canada

Topics: Adult After-School Control Entered Even Find Fully High-Quality Households Increasingly Means More Need Options Own Parents Schedule Scramble Women Work Workplace

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: January 13th, 1952

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