Failing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone.

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek into someone else's.

Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.

Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.

Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.

Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics.

The purpose of schools should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now

Failure is not an option, so why talk about it?

A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.

If we value all readers, we must value all reading.

Iyther you dont know nothing or you know too much it dont seam like theres any thing in be twean.

Be assured, a God who spoke the universe into existence would not need grains of dust to fight holy wars for him.

Well, what do you know? Fakespeare!

I love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of the day your actions belie your intentions.

Today I release the need to blame anyone, including myself.

Only humility will lead us to unity, and unity will lead to peace.

I'm constantly trying to make myself better, to learn more. I didn't finish college, so I feel like I'm always having to prove myself. I don't want to feel like the smallest person in the room.

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.