An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.