Principals are getting good feedback from across the community.

He was talking about how those businesses should be able to move wherever they damn well please, and we never supported that. We didn’t want them to go to neighborhoods or near churches or schools...

The message is that the D.C. City Council is not trying to judge our community. It’s not trying to make this a moral issue. I think they’re being very open with the equality.

She spoke what I call survival English. She spoke it well enough that she could communicate all she needed or wanted.

One of her teachers said she was one of the brightest students she’d had in 20 years. She was so strong in math and science. She excelled.

It was January before she was really starting to feel comfortable with what we were doing. She literally played all five positions, wherever she was needed.