In 1951 I took my first art course. And one day I looked over my shoulder and there was this tall gentleman standing, very well-dressed and groomed, ….

There was this judgmental sense of what was good and what was bad in my father's words. You couldn't necessarily shut the people out who were not con….

Personally, I think that my father's ministry does have some effect on one. I perhaps thought I wasn't listening that well, but I could almost recite….

There was no real gender definition in the sense of how you treat people in those days with gender differences. You avoided them. My parents always t….

It was my notion that teaching had to be thorough, it had to be well done, and it had to connect to something beyond the classroom; life..

I know my grandfather drank occasionally socially, what we call "taking a sip." And my father never touched the bottle. He condemned my grandfather f….

I always said, you have to have a goal and an objective in life..

My sister was like my surrogate mother here, in Washington, with very much of the same persuasions as my mother. Even when friends came from home tha….

There was a young man in our community who said he wanted to be a minister, and my father was trying to mentor him in the ministry, and something sup….

I established relationships with so many of those Iran students that went on for years.And they were so different from American students. They seemed….

When I became a professional and fully understood what was going on, I knew that with all the love and care and mentorship that someone like Professo….

I remember an experience once of a young man in our home who was gay. We just assumed it, based on his outward appearance. Gay people had a hard time….

I always - I knew from day one , in college, that I wanted to be a teacher .But I don't think I had envisioned becoming a professor at the time. I re….

My parents were not formally educated. Both were cognizant of the importance of education. The teachers and ministers were the role models, and they ….

We were told, no, you don't do. There was this high standard of morals and a sense of responsibility. That didn't mean that everybody stuck to those ….

When I became an adult, I had absolutely nothing against drinking alcohol. Many of my friends drank. I would often make wine and offer it, but I neve….

My students used to say, one such as Mary O'Neal, that I identified the students by their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That was the way I knew ….

Mary O'Neal used to say that I was teaching her course in disguise, as she said "in cultural disguise." What she meant was that this really was a ver….

James Porter said to me once, when I was talking about painting, he said, well, that's fine, he said, but you have a good mind so you can't just be a….

I grew up with a sense of tolerance. I don't know that there was any talk about gender differences. It was respect for people. So when I became a pro….

I think I got from my father and my mother a sense of morality, of the do's and don't's in society; the notion that good people don't do this; good p….