It's Not Complicated! Quotes

“A passion to read overcomes everything including students’ family background and parents’ education and income. A passion for reading leads to reading achievement no matter the student’s socio-economic status.”
― Phyllis Hunter, It's Not Complicated!: What I Know for Sure about Helping Our Students of Color Become Successful Readers

“Having some kind of goal is absolutely essential for kids trapped in poverty and bad family situations, because if we can’t hope that things might be better someday, then we basically lose a reason to live. It’s a lot easier to fall down, or to stay where you are, than it is to fight gravity by trying to pull yourself up. Having a dream can be the first and most important step in making it out of the system (p. 87).”
― Phyllis Hunter, It's Not Complicated!: What I Know for Sure about Helping Our Students of Color Become Successful Readers

“By the year 2020, if we keep on the same trend we are on now, the number of African American males who are incarcerated will exceed the number that were enslaved in the United States (Fowler, 2007).”
― Phyllis Hunter, It's Not Complicated!: What I Know for Sure about Helping Our Students of Color Become Successful Readers

“This gap perpetuates a cycle of injustice in our society that often begins in middle school with suspension practices.”
― Phyllis Hunter, It's Not Complicated!: What I Know for Sure about Helping Our Students of Color Become Successful Readers