No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.

I think of my life as a unity of circles. Some are concentric, others overlap, but they all connect in some way. Sometimes the connections don't happen for years. But when they do, I marvel. As in a shimmering kaleidoscope, familiar patterns keep unfolding