We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.
People are sometimes losing their homes before being convicted of a crime, or their cash or their cars.
There’s no such thing as being totally ‘found’…the fun, I think, is in the searching.
There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening.
What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me, too. "
I tend to only be able to obsess about one thing at once, and become fully engaged in and only interested in that thing. But in the longer term, a lot of my stories also give birth to other stories.
It's been nice, actually, to keep in touch with a lot of the people and families that I've written about. Like with the kids I was just writing about from Guatemala, who survived being kidnapped and fleeing violence, it was nice to just sit down in their living room and play bingo with them, go to dinner with the family. And sometimes not thinking about it in such a mechanistic "I am now coming to report and get what I need" way, but just spending time, helps you see a more natural version of who they are too.
Nature seems to have treasured up the depth of our mind talents and abilities that we are not aware of; it is the privilege of the passions alone to bring them to light, and to direct us sometimes to surer and more excellent aims than conscious effort could.
Always bear in mind that boys are naturally wiser than you. Regard them as intellectual beings, who have access to certain sources of knowledge of which you are deprived, and seek to derive all the benefit you can from their peculiar attainments and experience.
Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.
Throughout history people with disabilities have been institutionalized and segregated, which tends to make you think that it's a group in need of charity. It's not about charity, it's about empowerment.