The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.

I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.