[Bell strongly encouraged the students to let him know of any concerns they have.] If there is anything on your mind, ... don't think it's too far-fetched ... We are open for ideas if you think of something we ought to do.

I do not think students should have to read a select number of classics,

I really like meeting students.

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

We have invited 10 chapters, which are secondary schools, to come and train...each one is to bring two students.

I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.