Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.

Dad is in commercial real estate. Mom is a writer and a retired teacher.

They call Howard University the 'capstone of black education.' Howard was one of the historically black colleges where people want to go and send their children. Both of my grandfathers went through the medical school, and being in D.C., not far from New York City, it was a natural choice for me.

I'd always thought leadership was a CEO or president or person in a position of power. And honestly, to me, that meant a man - because that's what I was reading about in history books growing up.