The way a child holds a book tells you everything about how they feel about it.

You’ve got to have models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience—both vicarious and direct—on this latticework of models. You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. You’ve got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your mind.

"No matter who you are, where you're from, your skin color, your gender identity, just speak yourself."