Real learning, attentive, real learning, deep learning, is playful and frustrating and joyful and discouraging and exciting and sociable and private all the time, which is what makes it great.

Getting people to think about what they think, and asking them questions about it, is the best way I know how to teach.

You don't want to cover a subject; you want to uncover it.

To know enough about things is one prerequisite for (having) wonderful ideas.

But it's not the pressure of data that gives rise to the understanding. It's, on the contrary, the child's own struggle to make sense of the data

Why is there never a headline that says "Government program ends as its intended goal has been achieved"?

I have been too young to know, and I have been too old to care. It’s in that oh so narrow slice between that memories are made.

You can’t play with everything that looks playable, I guess even a child knows that.

Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.

I got cat class and I got cat style

Women are not all single-issue voters.

I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.

After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.

Love is an act of courage.