Cheryl

“Maybe it’s time to just scrap the word “racist.” Find something new. Like Racial Disorder Syndrome. And we could have different categories for sufferers of this syndrome: mild, medium, and acute.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“When no one was going to pay for the public schools anymore and they were all like filled with guns and drugs and English teachers who were really pimps and stuff, some of the big media congloms got together and gave all this money and bought the schools so that all of them could have computers and pizza for lunch and stuff, which they gave for free, and now we do stuff in classes about how to work technology and how to find bargains and what’s the best way to get a job and how to decorate our bedroom.”
― M.T. Anderson, Feed

“The Obama administration, strong on support for education as a general rule and long on rhetoric about the importance of libraries, has failed when it comes to championing school libraries.”
― John Palfrey, BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google

“On some level, my life has been wasted on me. After all, if I can’t remember it, who can?”
― Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections