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

We've been brainwashed into thinking that it takes more monies than it actually does to educate children. That's been one of the brainwash jobs.

Death cannot put the brakes on a good dream.

[Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the learning-disabled rooms.

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.

Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.