My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.

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.

Your relationship with God will determine your spiritual weight, your authority before Him

Just because it had happened before didn’t mean it wasn’t serious. It didn’t mean he didn’t need them.

Sometimes we all want to disappear in the depths of an infinite path and the reason of this is obvious: We all come from the depths of infinity!

The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.

I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted to have the work be light.

The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

I changed the past by walking back into it.

And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?

I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it.

All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.