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.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

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

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

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.

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

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