learning Quotes

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.