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.

The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction

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.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.