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.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

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.

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.

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

While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.