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.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

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

If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world.

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.