The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.
“If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.”
“All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.”