The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family – my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid – to live in the apartment building. – Tom Morello
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And thats not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher. – Joe Manchin
Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit… Santa, who was jolly – but, lets face it, he was also very judgmental. – Julia Sweeney
What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows. – Epictetus, Discourses
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
