I come from the philosophical school of LeVar Burton’s Reading Rainbow. Literacy is connected to freedom and it’s connected to an inner dignity. I want everyone to have that. This is not about who reads the most books or whatever else. This is about extending the possibility of freedom.

Sometimes at church someone says or does something so stupid that the only thing you can do is lock yourself inside the vestry, open up the cupboard, and scream into the robes so that the fabric muffles the sound. It's a form of prayer.