Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.

Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.

The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.

In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.

Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.