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

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

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.

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

There are not many of us African American Sister Presidents, and those of us who are in this field do not have an easy time of it. Why the story goes that one Black woman college president died and went to hell, and it was two weeks before she realized that she wasn't still on the job.

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