The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

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

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

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.

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

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

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