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

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

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

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.

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

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