Education is the thing. This black-white bit - I don't deal with people that way. I deal with it as if you are another individual. If you do something that perturbs me or aggravates me, I do not think you've done it because I'm black.

You can't find me 20 children in Chicago, I don't care which section you go in - you can be on Michigan Avenue or here - and they won't be able to tell you that y is a vowel when it's the final syllable in a word, as in Nancy and icy. And no one bothers to teach the rules anymore - "i before e except after c."

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.

None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.

Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.