Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

In trying times, I like to remember that you have to keep walking because you can't see what is around the corner.

Did Rahm Emmanuel serve President Barack] Obama or did he serve himself as he prepared to run for Mayor of Chicago? I don't use the term black-on-black violence, since I've never heard the term white-on-white violence.

This was in 2004, and it told me that President [Barack] Obama intended to be very careful and noncontroversial in addressing race matters. I

I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.

If people don't know about you, that's not on them, it's on you.

History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.