Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

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.

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

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.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

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.