"Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings."

“I love working with young artists. Jacob Latimore was the first kid that I auditioned. After he walked out, I turned to my husband and said, "I think that's the kid. I don't know if I have to look any further. He's the one!" He's a real star.”

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“I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.”

“Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.”

“What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.”

“I did it for the love of cash your honer, traffickin' cross the verrazano, coke dealin marijuana”

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”

“I rode in a gang. We robbed trains, banks, held people ransom. We killed people we didn't like. Bill Williamson was in that gang. If I don't capture my former brother-in-arms, great harm will befall my family.”

“If you care too much about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner. Lao Tzu”