A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view.

Everything in your life right now is a possible episode.

Education is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world. Education is the path to the future. I believe that education is indeed freedom.

To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.

I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me.

Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short.

When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.