Jessie

“How can you study geometry and not believe in a god? A god of perfect points and planes, surrounded by angels and angles of all different degrees...”
― Taylor Mali

“may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.”
― e.e. cummings

“I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but I have almost always found that children are a great deal more reliable in telling us what actually goes on in public school than many of the adult experts who develop policies that shape their destinies.”
― Jonathan Kozol, The Shame of the Nation

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch