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

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.

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

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.

Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

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