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.

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

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.

You can't tell parents to teach children the value of work when we don't have jobs and the jobs we have don't pay a decent wage. You can't tell children to achieve and then let them go to broken-down schools with teachers who don't care. We need a consistency of values in our public, corporate, and private lives.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color.

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.