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

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.

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

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!

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.