Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

I was quite the Mr Popular both among the students and teachers in school.

What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if you spend your whole life focusing on yourself, you're not really learning much.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

It is no accident that the place that lends itself to creating conflicts between the dominant order of thought and people who want to speak their minds freely is the college campus, where conservatives feel outnumbered and crushed by a system of higher education that believes in academic freedom for me, not for thee.