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

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

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.

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.