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

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

Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.

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.

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.

Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.

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