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.

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

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

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

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

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