Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty per cent of useful work of the world.

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.