It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.

The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.

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

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.