...it was the arts, those noble expressions of the human spirit that are communicated through literature, dance, song, film, drama, painting and sculpture, among the many other such creative means, that helped articulate the sufferings of [these] people that were heard around the globe.

Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.

My mother comes in my room and says, "Just look at this mess! This is a pig sty!" Now, I've already been in the room five hours, and she wants me to LOOK at it.

A baseball manager has learned a lot about his job from having played the game, but a parent has not learned a thing from having once been a child.

Old is always fifteen years from now.

You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery.