So March: Book One was the first book I ever wrote. And it was the most terrifying process I've ever been through.

You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.

If voting wasn't important, why would they be spending so much time and so much energy trying to stop you from doing it?

Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream." And that's it!

People forget that many of the aspects of the Selma campaign were laid out in response to the church bombing in Birmingham.

Nothing surprised me more, and meant more to me, than seeing an entire class of ninth graders mob Congressman [John] Lewis at a book festival.

In so many ways, forces unleashed in response to the Movement have come to dominate our politics, and technology is allowing the same injustices to be seen anew.

We don't want to just tell [students] who the people are, we don't want to just tell them what happened - we want to show the process by which it formed itself.

I think ['March'] is not just for the Black Lives Matter movement. It's for everyone. We all have to understand what happened then, so we can understand what's happening now.

The sweet pleasure of your own joy and success is a cultivation of both the heart and mind.

A twelve year old Ben Linus just gave me a chicken salad sandwich, how do you think I am?

Hang yourself brave Crillon. We fought at Arques and you were not there.

I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.

We lived in a housing project graced by the architectural style of Early Chicken Coop.

This Day, whate'er the Fates decree; Shall still be kept with Joy by me: This Day then, let us not be told, That you are sick, and I grown old

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.

An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.