Carmelita K. Williams quote: "When it comes to reading, parents can ensure that their children's literacy rights are honored! Talk to your child's school and find out about the quality reading practices that are going on in the classroom."

Children entering school today without basic reading knowledge are at risk of long term failure.
CARMELITA K. WILLIAMS

In our quest to achieve success, let us leave no child behind.
CARMELITA K. WILLIAMS

Adolescents need more support! We have long supported early childhood literacy learning and educatio...
CARMELITA K. WILLIAMS

In our quest to achieve success, let us leave no child behind.
CARMELITA WILLIAMS

When it comes to reading, parents can ensure that their children's literacy rights are honored! Talk...
CARMELITA WILLIAMS

Children entering school today without basic reading knowledge are at risk of long term failure.
CARMELITA WILLIAMS

Adolescents need more support! We have long supported early childhood literacy learning and educatio...
CARMELITA WILLIAMS

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
C. K. WILLIAMS

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a diff...
C. K. WILLIAMS

When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens ...
C. K. WILLIAMS

I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people&...
C. K. WILLIAMS

I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
C. K. WILLIAMS

I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
C. K. WILLIAMS

A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
C. K. WILLIAMS

I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't ...
C. K. WILLIAMS

One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a...
C. K. WILLIAMS

My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack...
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS

Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of...
C. K. WILLIAMS

Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS

If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.
C. K. WILLIAMS

morning: that first sapphire dome of glow.
C K WILLIAMS

My dream role is to portray someone like James Baldwin. I've always been a fan of his writing, a...
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS

I'm totally comfortable today with the success that Omar and 'The Wire' have brought me ...
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS

As we say in the hood, I'm a stoop kid.
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS

You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word 'turbulent.'
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.
K

All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.
K. FORD K.

When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I wen...
K. FLAY

My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
K. FLAY

I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much ...
K. FLAY

A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.
K. FLAY

I think, on the rap side of life, I've always been inspired by and respected Missy Elliott for a...
K. FLAY

Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuse...
K. FLAY

Pre-show, I warm up my voice, stretch, do a little team huddle, and sometimes throw a shot of whiske...
K. FLAY

I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost...
K. FLAY

My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of s...
K. FLAY

I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice.
K. FLAY

I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present...
K. FLAY

The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or...
K. FLAY

When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the y...
K. FLAY

As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empower...
K. FLAY

More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
K. FLAY

It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can'...
K. FLAY

Most of the people at my headline shows are in their 20s, but it varies a ton: like, I've had a ...
K. FLAY

There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental...
K. FLAY

There's something distinct and interesting about a live performance. There's this weird imme...
K. FLAY

My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates el...
K. FLAY

Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even af...
K. FLAY

A college degree is not essential, but if you're already in college, and if it's at all poss...
K. FLAY

Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be...
K. FLAY

The more time passes in your life, I think the greater you understand perspective. So I'm happy ...
K. FLAY

Remember, when the judgment's weak, the prejudice is strong.
K. O'HARA

There's only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it's all about ...
K. FLAY

I've always had a duck personality. Calm above water, feet going crazy below.
K. FLAY

My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was ...
K. FLAY

Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.
K. FLAY

I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in ...
K. FLAY

What's become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opport...
K. FLAY

I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I re...
K. FLAY

Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much ...
K. FLAY

My future is just a mirage. The more I expect from it, it just turns out to be mere reflections.
MARIA K

when your child is born, you know that of all the lives you might have lived, only this one was ever...
K WILCOX

I'm done with temporary... I need permanence!
K. MARQUES

Remember This: People give advice, not to hurt you but, to keep you from getting hurt. They see thin...
K. MARQUES

If you aren't worth it to them, they shouldn't be worth it to you.
K. MARQUES

Big Love and More Light!
XxMwaaahhhhXx
K. LOVE

Love one another. Love yourself. Then love will find you whole not half.
K. TAYLOR

Never tread lightly. Leave a deep impression wherever you go.
K. RAFFERTY

The beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair
RELIENT K

Books are like ice cream; there is a flavor for everyone!
K. LAMB

and I'm trying so hard, with all my heart and mind, to make your life as good as you've made mine...
RELIENT K

We should get jerseys, cause we make a good team; but yours would look better than mine, cause you'r...
RELIENT K

Here comes the best part,” I say, realizing that I’ve spoken aloud the words I always tease Hadd...
K. BROMBERG

Without knowing anything else about him, i already know he'd be worth the hurt.
K. BROMBERG

The beauty of grace is that it makes like not fair.
RELIENT K

Love can hurt sometimes. Sometimes the things that make you happy can bring you sadness. But you hav...
CAITLYN K

Our heads are full of comparisons, needs for approval and attention, a desire to be at other places,...
LIDIYA K.

Are you mad?” She breathes from behind me. I spin around to face her.
“What do you think?�...
K. LARS

Lane, I will become attached to you. It happens with everyone. Something about my personality makes ...
K. WEBSTER

I’ve noticed that most of us don’t realize how important this moment is. They take it for grante...
LIDIYA K.

Making many mistakes
Doesn't make you a failure
It makes you become more successful
K-GIRL

We can't always be the bridge. Sometimes we have to be the flooding river.
K. WEIKEL

But, Leader, she is wrong -

"Maybe she is," Quill say and looks at Becca. Her heart poun...
K. WEIKEL

You wouldn't want to trade the eternal loop of your life for an infinite loop in the world of ideas,...
JOE K.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ~Oliver Wendal...
K. LANGSTON

Saying everything is okay doesn't make you a grown-up.
K. WEIKEL

Are my own thoughts bad?
K. WEIKEL

We will no longer be outcasts - we will be rulers.
K. WEIKEL

A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, s...
K. FLAY

This life we all receive is full of invisible boundaries and abstract values.
K. CONLEY

There is always going to be evil as long as goodness lives on.
K. WEIKEL

Sometimes an angel is found in the dark.
K. WEBSTER

Then, I exit her apartment. With practiced efficiency, I engage all of the locks in seconds. I want ...
K. WEBSTER

Violet makes me better,” I tell him, confidence in my tone. He smirks. “I can see that. I can se...
K. WEBSTER

It’s a penis not an introduction to the president.
K. WEBSTER

To achieve true beauty, you have to look within, before you change without.
K. RAFFERTY

In that case, which would be the lesser of two evils—terror cabin with a psycho or beach estate wi...
K. WEBSTER

I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of thei...
K. FLAY

I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school....
K. FLAY

There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
IAN WILLIAMS

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
VENUS WILLIAMS

But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.
TREAT WILLIAMS

After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
VENUS WILLIAMS

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke,...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

The day my son was born my life changed completely.
TREAT WILLIAMS

We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need.
VIRGINIA WILLIAMS

Sometimes I light incense and a candle. It's so peaceful and quiet. The steadiness of the energy...
CINDY WILLIAMS

If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a...
TAD WILLIAMS

People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that ...
TAD WILLIAMS

One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there a...
TAD WILLIAMS

For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things t...
TAD WILLIAMS

My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was ...
TAD WILLIAMS

I am a sandwich man. Somewhere early in life, my epigenetic switches got flicked to 'likes sandw...
TAD WILLIAMS

Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know...
TAD WILLIAMS

Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell...
TAD WILLIAMS

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will thin...
TAD WILLIAMS

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their pligh...
TAD WILLIAMS

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what...
TAD WILLIAMS

In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll fi...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, al...
BETTY WILLIAMS

Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
VENUS WILLIAMS

You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. T...
VENUS WILLIAMS

Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to belie...
VENUS WILLIAMS

Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going fo...
VENUS WILLIAMS

Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
VENUS WILLIAMS

The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.
VENUS WILLIAMS

A lot of times, I don't just do juice; I do the whole thing blended to keep the fiber.
VENUS WILLIAMS

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can ne...
VENUS WILLIAMS

Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
VENUS WILLIAMS

I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I ...
VENUS WILLIAMS

I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more suc...
VENUS WILLIAMS

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.
VENUS WILLIAMS

You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
VENUS WILLIAMS

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
VENUS WILLIAMS

No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
VENUS WILLIAMS

I've always found the rain very calming.
VENUS WILLIAMS

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the stat...
TED WILLIAMS

Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the grea...
TED WILLIAMS

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the la...
TED WILLIAMS

I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
TED WILLIAMS

If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
TED WILLIAMS

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
TED WILLIAMS

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
TED WILLIAMS

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
TED WILLIAMS

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and...
TED WILLIAMS

By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
TED WILLIAMS

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
TED WILLIAMS

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to b...
TED WILLIAMS

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can imp...
TED WILLIAMS

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'Th...
TED WILLIAMS

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
TED WILLIAMS

According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an ...
VESTA WILLIAMS

A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
VESTA WILLIAMS

I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress ...
VESTA WILLIAMS

When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V...
VESTA WILLIAMS

Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
VESTA WILLIAMS

I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impress...
VESTA WILLIAMS

And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don'...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

Broadway is really my life.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very m...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

I love the French horn.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have d...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

New York is my home.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, th...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as hum...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time ...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitchi...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was som...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really ...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my s...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a myster...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just tu...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal la...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

If you were to come out and hang out with me, just having fun at a nightclub or a party, that's ...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvisin...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for '...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, som...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all the...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. W...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I love seafood. Whenever I'm in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting h...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than peop...
IAN WILLIAMS

It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'...
IAN WILLIAMS

I'm too tasteful for my pants.
IAN WILLIAMS

I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
IAN WILLIAMS

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I p...
IAN WILLIAMS

I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.
IAN WILLIAMS

We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a nega...
IAN WILLIAMS

I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably...
IAN WILLIAMS

This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or somet...
IAN WILLIAMS

When it comes to reading, parents can ensure that their children's literacy rights are honored! Talk to your child's school and find out about the quality reading practices that are going on in the classroom.

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