You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.

[We must] deal with all of the contributing factors to gun violence as a whole, because it's like a leaky bucket - if you've got a bucket with six holes shot through it, [and] you plug up five, you've still got a leaky bucket.

It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.

Health is more than absence of disease; it is about economics, education, environment, empowerment, and community. The health and well being of the people is critically dependent upon the health system that serves them. It must provide the best possible health with the least disparities and respond equally well to everyone.

... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.

Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor, I have more education than most white people."

The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.