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.

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

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

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

While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.

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