racism is alive and doing too well in America.

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.

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

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.

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!