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

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

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

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

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