I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.

Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.

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

Hope is the best contraceptive.

Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.

I try to be a person of faith.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.