I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'

Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.

If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.

We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.