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.

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.

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.

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

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.