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

Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

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