The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in our culture. Another holdover from slavery. We've got to deal with that core root of racism and demonization of the upbringing of black men. Black women are not exempt by any means.

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.

If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.