You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.

Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?

As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.

Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.

I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.