Professor Speaks

Famous quotes containing the words professor and/or speaks:

“Once I had a professor say to me, “You know you have as much education as a lot of white people.” I answered, “Doctor, I have more education than most white people.””
—Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933)

“It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)