Start each day asking, "How do I want others to feel?" Then act accordingly. xo

They say you can tell a lot about a country by the way it treats its prisoners…I believe the same can be said for how a country treats its children

An educator...a good one that is, inspires others to be even better than herself.

I work backwards with the ending in mind as I create art, stories, poems and books. Always in a process of becoming.

Be the kind of grown up you needed as a child.

Most often it is in heartache that we love more boldly.

People say they walk on the shoulders of giants. True, but have you ever walked like one?

Be simple. Be direct. Be clear. Don't worry about being correct. Worry about being real.

Create something. Create something ugly. Create something beautiful.  I don't care what it is. Create it.

Education is not filling up a box but seeing what you can create with one and don't you ever forget that!

A poem a day keeps the doctor away.

Never miss an opportunity of noticing anything of beauty ...

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive.

I remember reading The Bluest Eye when I was a young parent, and something opened in me. That's the highest aspiration.

Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -

Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

Laughter means sympathy.