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

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

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

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.

if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.

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

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