Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

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.

Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.

So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.

If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.