Service is the rent we pay for living.

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.

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'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.

I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.