Writing: the concept. Everyone has a right to write, to know how to place words on paper, the right to be in the mist of writing all of the time. A student told me once that she had nothing to write about. This is what I said to her: Yes. Writing equals thinking, and I mean thinking on paper or on the computer. All of us are always thinking. All of us are always thinking about. . .
the way we treat our children. The way we understand ourselves to be is the way that we will treat our children. The children are our teachers: they teach us how we love ourselves. Love yourself? You will love the children that enter into your lives.
Claudette Colvin was a child that taught me how to love those who sacrifice their lives for me to live in a better America. She is a woman now, however, in 1955, she was a teenager. She was pulled off of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Why--because of the segregation laws. In addition Claudette and three other women went to court. The case: Browder V Gayle. They fought against bus segregation because it violated the 14th admendment of the constitution. The result: Bus segregation was ruled unconstitutional. Children: they teach us how to live. Claudette Colvin did that then, and as I remember her I am committed to doing that now. Today, I ask you to love a child. Children are our history; they are our now! Ichallenge you to write a story about a child. You have that right!!!
Children:
teach us how
we love, we hate
we live. Claudette
taught us how to be free.
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