So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.
I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.
I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.
As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.
With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I ne...
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave me up to two wonderful people, my foster parents.
One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.
There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.
A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.
If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
I am not an enemy of Adventism.
I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had.
What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have reached a circulation of 15 million. those are not my figures but the figures of the people who distribute them.
