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

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

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

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.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

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

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.