There is no doubt that great teaching and great teachers have a significant impact on students and their long-term association with school and with learning.

For me, education—both teaching and learning—is about building relationships and developing rapport with students, with parents, and with faculty.

What do you want to write? What gets your goat? What irks you to no length? If you could change the world with words, what would they be?

The more you know the less you talk.

It was written without fear and without research.

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

Going after 'the bad guy' has not been a real issue for me.

I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from there and they really want to see change and they really want to see good things happen.

All social change begins with a conversation.

If you are not rising with ethichs, you will sink with every rise!

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.