Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.

What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!

tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

Your dreams can be realities. They are the stuff that leads us through life toward great happiness.

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

Play like dreams serves the function of self realization.

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish.

Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.

God's canopy is over you and will cover you at all times, preserving you from evil.