By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Only the educated are free.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Never complain and never explain.
Wherever you are - be all there.
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.