Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.

Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.