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

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

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

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

The more we pull together toward a new day, the less it matters what pushed us apart in the past.