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.

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

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

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

The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.

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 ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.