My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

I'm past the point of no return,

That profile is more common than not. There is a shortage of teachers of color and particularly African-American males at the elementary-school level.

I think people are going to travel and take vacations, no matter what.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.