It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'

False hope is worse than despair.

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.

The heresy of an age of reason, ' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

M dad was a boxer, so he had this fierce, physical presence.

False life is exhausting; Real Life is inexhaustible.

he knows too much about himself to subject her to a morning after, when he will be cold, surly, impatient to be alone.

You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.

I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.

Be slow to criticize. And fast to APPRECIATE

Every day on set, there was something to watch and learn.

Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.