Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the richest nation on Earth, with the highest number of imprisoned people in the world. Our drug addictions and child poverty are among the highest in the industrialized world. So don't ever confuse wealth or fame with character.

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people’s children, I’m doing that because I want to leave a community and a world that is better than the one I found.

So often we think we have got to make a difference and be a big dog. Let us just try to be little fleas biting. Enough fleas biting strategically can make a big dog very uncomfortable.

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.