I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

W. E. B. Du Bois

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

Bob Kerrey

I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.

Idris Elba

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

Zadie Smith

I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

Ed Westwick

But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made.

Errol Morris

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Aleister Crowley

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Christopher Morley

This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.

John Sununu

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

Whitney Houston