Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity.

The magic of you is in your capacity to shape change.

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

An ounce of wisdom can prevent a pound of folly.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.

The only goal is in the process. The process is the thing…with little flashes of light here and there. Those are the gigs, those are the live shows. But it's the life in between—that's all I got.

Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts.

There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water

I believe that access to electricity and light can radically improve people‚ lives.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.