"This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work."

-- Tavis Smiley

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“I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I need for a son? A heart I need for a son, a soul I need for a son, compassion I want from my son, righteousness, mercy, strength to suffer and carry pain, that I want from my son, not a mind without a soul!”
“I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.”
“I want a future where women and girls get to be the subject of their own sexuality, not the object of somebody elseâ€™s. That we are the main characters in our own play, not props in somebody elseâ€™sâ€”which is how womenâ€™s sexuality is treated now. Whatever the outside attitudes about sexuality itâ€™s always about somebodyâ€™s agenda for us, and I want a world where we can have our own.”
“Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because Iâ€™ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year old school girl. Oh well, it doesnâ€™t matter. I feel like writing.”
“So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.”

Source : "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.
“I don’t know if I’m a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young.   I was like, ‘Mum, it hurts.’”
“I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.”
“Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their time, they displayed gapped and tangled teeth in loosely open mouths. Gently shedding dandruff, they lurched across the lawn. When they stood at the bar they looked like Lee Trevino Putting.”

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