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

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.

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.

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.

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