Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.
It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.
The best teacher is very interactive.
Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.
...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
"It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for."
