if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.

The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.