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

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 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.

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.

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.