I asked her, 'Are you following the Cindy Sheehan story?' She was.

I remember he used to like to go have coffee with the guys at the old Snack House,

We're both here because of our grandchildren. It feels like a word-of-mouth thing. Everybody I meet is saying they had to be here.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you somebody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people.

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.