The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

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

There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people.

Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the rent each of us pays for living - the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.