Quotes by : Erin Gruwell

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn....

It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or....

It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather....

Because if they grow up holding on to such terrible feelings, it could lead to another war come time....

Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19)

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world....

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably....

I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities....

Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences....

Evil prevails when good people do nothing.