Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.Ralph Ellison
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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