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.

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.

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.

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

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

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 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.