“There is often more to the story than just hard work,” she explained during a talk to teachers at the Gordon School in Providence, Rhode Island. “It’s not but. It’s and. There is luck and circumstance and the family you were born to. All sorts of things factor in. That would be extremely radical if parents just started saying that at the dinner table. If we were honest about our own privilege when we have it. And not all of us have it or have had it, though most of us in this room have had it in some form or another.”
