"As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That's about the most you can do, I think."

-- Terry McMillan

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“Forever is not a word...rather a place where two lovers go when true love takes them there.”
“Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.”
“If you're afraid to talk to the other adults in your school it is definitely throughout history the hallmark of a failing school. When I was writing about the teachers' strike in New York City in 1968, the middle school where events triggered that strike was a place where teachers were known to hide in their classrooms.”

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“I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective.”
“I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals. . . .”
“I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I'm free, and yet I can't let it show. Just imagine what would happen if all eight of us were to feel sorry for ourselves or walk around with the discontent clearly visible on our faces. Where would that get us?”
“The bottom line is, you can't be afraid to fail.”
“Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.”

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