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I'm still true to my Southern roots. ”
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ”
I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science. ”
The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, magnet schools, community schools, schools that focus on career and technical education, and even charter schools. ”
I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society. ”
Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve. ”
Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks. ”
When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage. ”
Most of the things in your life are not in your control - the family you are born into, the parents, and the siblings you have. It is only friendship and love that you create for yourself in this lifetime. ”
Each character, be it the antagonist or the protagonist, brings with himself his own personality... and I have tried to stay true to each one of them; each is enjoyable in their own way! ”