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I Was Asked By An Npr Reporter Once, Why Don't I Talk About Race That Often. I Said It's Because I'm A Neurosurgeon. And She Thought That Was A Strange Response. And You Say - I Said, You See, When I Take Someone To The Operating Room, I'm Actually Operating On The Thing That Makes Them Who They Are. The Skin Doesn't Make Them Who They Are.

If We Can Take Young People Who Excel At The Highest Levels, Put Them On The Same Kind Of Pedestal As The All-state Basketball Player And The All-state Football Player, And Begin To Get The Same Kind Of Recognition, It Will Have A Profound Effect, And We Are Finding That It Does.

Do You Have A Brain? Then You Can Think Your Way Out Of It. The Reason We Have Brains Is So We Can Figure Out How To Do Things.

In The Old Days Of America When Communities Were Separated By Hundreds Of Miles, Why Were They Able To Thrive? Because If It Was Harvest Time And The Farmer Was Up In The Tree Picking Apples And Fell Down And Broke His Leg, Everybody Pitched In And Harvested His Crops For Him. If Somebody Got Killed By A Bear, Everybody Took Care Of Their Family.

Having Grown Up In Dire Poor, The Thing That I Hated The Most In Life Was Poverty.