"I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'"

-- Jonathan Kozol

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“Michael Jordan didnâ€™t become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didnâ€™t become a great painter because he dreamed that one day his paintings would sell for $50 million.”
“But the absence of him is everywhere I look. It's like a huge hole has been punched through my chest.”
“My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.”
“What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially itâ€™s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.”
“I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from her world: the dog had introduced to her field of vision some previously unavailable hue and without a dog, that color was gone. That seemed to capture the experience of loving a dog with eminent simplicity. I'd amend it only slightly and say that if we are open to what they have to give, dogs can introduce us to several colors with names like wildness, nurturance, trust and joy.”
“I want a baby of my very own one day, but it seems that my being male is a BIIIIT of a problem.”
“I froze in time! And I thought "My God......I'm free!”
“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”

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