"She teaches in a school with mostly Bloods and Crips, and she wears a lion hat outside. That's the most gangsta shit I've ever seen."

-Elliot, Class of 2009

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour."

-William Blake, from "Auguries of Innocence"