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No Matter What...ball Made My Heart Beat Faster, Made Me Want To Jump Up And Down And Be Superman. That's What Life Was About Anyway, Being Superman And Living Like Life Itself Was Important. Basketball Made My Life Important.

I Know What Falling Off The Cliff Means. I Know From Being Considered A Very Bright Kid To Being Considered Like A Moron And Dropping Out Of School.

Fifty Percent Of All Meaningful Education Takes Place In The Home. What Do You Share With Your Child? You Share Your Interests. I Was A Book Person. I Read With My Son. My Wife Is An Artist. She Dragged His Little Butt Around To Museums. He's An Illustrator Of Children's Books.

I Keep Threatening To Keep A Formal Journal, But Whenever I Start One It Instantly Becomes An Exercise In Self-consciousness. Instead Of A Journal I Manage To Have Dozens Of Notebooks With Bits And Pieces Of Stories, Poems, And Notes. Almost Every Thing I Do Has Its Beginning In A Notebook Of Some Sort, Usually Written On A Bus Or Train.

We Need To Tell Young People That America Was Built By Men And Women Of All Colors And That The Future Of This Country Is Dependent On The Participation Of All Of Our Citizens.