“The circumstances are remarkable when you stop to think about what you couldn't do in Raleigh and in Richmond. After 1831, they didn't want blacks to learn the ABCs. She put those boys in school,”
“We can't undo this part of our heritage. But what we can affect is where we are headed. I want to talk about multiculturalism, because I think that's where we are headed.”
“It's not so much Katrina as a phenomenon as it's Katrina as a metaphor for what our society has become. It reflects; it's a mirror of what we've become - super-extraordinarily complacent.”
“Education came to be one of the great preoccupations, enlightenment was viewed as the greatest single opportunity to escape . . . . Parents made untold sacrifice to secure learning for their children that they had been denied.”
