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

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

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.

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

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

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