God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be the hands of God. They tried to live their faith.

There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was among them. It's always these ordinary women and men of grace who have been waiting and seething and planning to change things that are unjust that bring movement.

You just do it one step at a time.

Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.

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.