The best part is getting to the top 'cause the pain's all over.
I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.
When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
As authentic as it is riveting and ultimately unforgettable. Your past will find you-and it can change your life. I think it's the most soulful book Patti Callahan has ever written.
Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?' The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate! Why, when all of my ancestors are snake-bitten, and I'm snake-bitten, and I warn my children to avoid snakes, what does that snake sound like accusing me of hate-teaching?