"I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before."

-- Geoffrey Canada

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“Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on.”
“I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?”
“In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main ones, the real soul and a pretender soul. Now! Every man realizes that he has to love something or somebody. He feels that he must go outward. 'If thou canst not love, what art thou?' Are you with me?”
“Donâ€™t look back until youâ€™ve written an entire draft...”
“I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.”
“Every performance is different, but I try to approach them in the same way and give it my all.”
“I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor.”
“I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.”

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