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!

Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

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

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.