Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Women should not allow themselves to be caught up in the hype that says performance, meaning the motions, is what matters.

Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.

I could do all of my activities at Howard because it was an environment that had essentially rid the ideology of false choices that I feel absolutely constricts young black students.

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

The American dream belongs to all of us.