What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Only the educated are free.
After a storm comes a calm.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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.