I Made Friends With A Lot Of

My Parents Encouraged Me In Everything I Ever Wanted To Do.

The Storytelling Tradition That You Bring From The South, I Don't Know Where It Arose, But It's Still There. You Can't Go To The Feed Store, Or The Country Courthouse Without Running Into Storytellers.

The Mississippi River Carries The Mud Of Thirty States And Two Provinces 2,000 Miles South To The Delta And Deposits 500 Million Tons Of It There Every Year. The Business Of The Mississippi, Which It Will Accomplish In Time, Is Methodically To Transport All Of Illinois To The Gulf Of Mexico.

I Don't Think I Had A Reputation As A Hard Worker, But Inside I Was Always Being Eaten Up By The Pressures.

When We Become A Really Mature, Grown-up, Wise Society, We Will Put Teachers At The Center Of The Community, Where They Belong. We Don't Honor Them Enough, We Don't Pay Them Enough.