Each person has a literature inside them.

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.

My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.