It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.
Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.
The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.
Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.