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.

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

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

It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.