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It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

The most important duty of a teacher is to not only teach but to also inspire and enhance the desire for learning.

I knew you talked to books. I didn't realize they listened

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.

The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

The United States is undergoing a transformation in how it relates to the rest of the world. We are becoming a nation that has no more negotiators and peacemakers, that shoots first and asks questions later.

My view of Sarah Palin is she is the most dynamic figure maybe in politics, even more in some ways than President Obama, who is a little more scripted than she is. He is great with the teleprompter.

I do my best to use all-natural type of products. I find that Perricone has really nice face cream. I find they have good facial products. Whenever I have a pimple, their products clear them up and make my skin nice and clean. Also, Kiehl's Ultra Facial Oil-Free Gel-Cream.

My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13.

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

I’ve never been ashamed of my struggles, my breakdowns nor those moments where I felt the most chaotic, so damn unbalanced or anxious about all those things that have eaten me alive. I’ve never played the role of a victim because such a silly role has never been mine. on the contrary , I’ve always been my worst judge, my harshest critic, and if I have ever been a victim , I was the victim of my stupid decisions and my wrong choices of toxic people , environment that I’ll never belong to and paths that led me nowhere . I owe the world no apologies, all the apologies I really owe to myself for being so hard on myself in a world that has never made it any better nor showed any mercy on me …

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

I'm two-footed. I prefer to dribble with the left and shoot with the right.

In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.

Every movie, I find myself adrift at the beginning of the movie, and then I find my way through the dark forest.