It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list.

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.

I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.

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

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.