Pour a Little Salt, We Were Never Here.

"Julia Child would have been 101 last week. I celebrate her birthday every year. This year I cooked some smoky eggplant soup, and ate it in Central Park." "Were you alone?" "Of course. I love to be alone. I’m fabulous."

"I just finished my dissertation." “What was the topic?” “It was about the prediction of community college retention rates.” “What interests you most about community college?” “Well, a lot of things. But I really think that the community college system is critical to the functioning of our democracy. A democracy depends on the education of its citizenry. And we just don’t have the infrastructure to send everyone to a four year school. So if America’s democracy is going to succeed, it’s going to depend in large part on the health of our community colleges.”

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Forced to drop out of school at an early age due to not being able to pay school fees (about $80), a young African man named William took up reading books to make up for his lack of education. What was born from this was something so incredible that it makes everything you accomplished look...