“I was starting out in the business, there was only one path to playing professionally - graduate, or go four years. With the creation of the ABA [American Basketball Association] in the early 1970s, the sanctity of having to go to college was broken. The ABA took anyone, starting with Spencer Haywood.” YearsPathFourCreationCollegeBrokenBasketballStartingAssociationFour YearsGraduatesSanctityStarting Out Author:Sonny Vaccaro
“One of the things is that I've been very comfortable in every situation starting ministry in the inner city and ministering in places - Washington, D.C., feeding the homeless, the hurting, going to broken boys and girls. So culturally I understood all different aspects of life - from extremely wealthy to extreme poverty, socioeconomic differences, ethnic differences.” DifferentGirlDifferencesHurtCitiesSituationBoysPovertyBrokenComfortableUnderstoodAspectStartingExtremesWealthyMinistryHomelessFeedingBoy And GirlAspects Of LifeInner CityExtreme Poverty Author:Paula White
“We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.” PeopleHelpingSpeakFeetPolicyBrokenSolutionsProgramSafetyStartingImmigrationGet BackHelping PeopleEducation SystemDependencyMobilitySafety NetImmigration PolicyUpward Mobility Author:Paul Ryan
“Who was I, really? I was the sole occupant of my mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the story she was telling that day. There were so many missing pieces. I was starting to find some of them, working my way upriver, collecting a secret cache of broken memories in a shoebox.” WayStatesStoriesMotherMemoriesMy OwnSecretPiecesMissingBrokenFitStartingMy WaySoleCollectingPersonal HistoryTotalitarian StateMissing PieceCache Book:White Oleander Source: White Oleander