Great triumphs can only come out of great trials
She talked to me like I was just like any other student, not a kid in a wheelchair.
It can connect us to memories. It can influence our mood and our responses to problems we might face.
I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.
Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.
Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.
Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.
In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L. A. , there are people who have never tried Indian food. . . they've never even tasted it!
She must express life, death, happiness, sorrow, love and anger, but above all she must have dignity.
Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find.
I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.