Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another.

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection.

I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.