“Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he ...” — Alice Walker Quote

“Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.”

“when I was sitting quiet and feeling like a motherless child, which I was, it come to me: that feeling of being part of everything, not separate at all. I knew that if I cut a tree, my arm would bleed. And I laughed and I cried and I run all around the house. I knew just what it was.”

“My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.”

“In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student's performance; no citizen would sit on a jury or call a failed leader to account.”

“I think good actors are born with a kind of native gift. When you study too much with an acting teacher, that gets taken away. You lose your sense of spontaneity.”

“My brother is a policeman; my sister's an English teacher. When I hear what they make versus what I make, it's ridiculous.”