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.

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.

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

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

There are not many of us African American Sister Presidents, and those of us who are in this field do not have an easy time of it. Why the story goes that one Black woman college president died and went to hell, and it was two weeks before she realized that she wasn't still on the job.

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.

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