Service is the rent we pay for living.

The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.

It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.

Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up.

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