“If school is preparation for the real world.”

We should all be more aware of what’s going on in the world around us and less ignorant.

Everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

I would say that kids are great in many ways.

The traits the word ‘childish’ addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age.

To show that you truly care, you listen.

Rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.

The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.

Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal.

Due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.

The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make ‘big miracles’ happen.

No matter your position or place in life.

I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, ‘Flying Fingers,’ debuted.

Not just for me, but for everyone.

But I think it’s very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.

We all love people who give credit to others for their success.

By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection.

Family is the only real wealth.

I will never apologize for being me, speaking the truth & giving all of me to the world. I will never apologize for being real & how I feel.

If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and you’d know it all already.

You’re living life in real time, man, and we’ ve got a good amount of work to do for each other. Hiding is not an option and you’re going to step out and you’re going to make mistakes.

My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world changes depending on its arrangement into one narrative or another.

I don’t really hashtag things. Unless I’m talking to somebody and I’m being funny and I say something mean but then I’m like, Hashtag…something that’s funny. I like to only hashtag funny things, not real stuff.

The irony is when I originally wrote the song, it was called “Mary’s Lullaby.” I wrote it from Mary’s standpoint and it was in a higher key, a real falsetto, and it just wasn’t right.

Many people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace.