There is an educational cliff we are walking over right this very second.

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.

One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility'.

Movies portray men as tough guys.

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent.