When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Divide and conquer must become define and empower.

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society