"We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community."

"Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried."

"You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it."

"Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large."

"Wisdom principle 100 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 53."

"The highest expression of strength is tenderness toward the vulnerable — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The echoes of eternity remind us that shadows are only cast by the presence of light."

"The silent observer understands that the only true currency in life is time well spent."