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I want to inspire kids.
I believe in my prayers.
We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.
We must absolutely take care of one another.
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
We have to take care of each other's children.
I do think that some people are born as old souls.
I believe it doesn't do yourself any good to hate.
I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
If my mama said not to do something, I didn't do it.
What we, as African Americans, stood on was our faith.
Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
Kids really don't care about what their friends look like.
It's taken me a long time to own the early part of my life.
Kids know nothing about racism. They're taught that by adults.
You cannot look at a person and tell whether they're good or bad.
That's really what my work is all about - bringing kids together.
Schools should be diverse if we are to get past racial differences.
Now that I'm a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
From age 7 to about 37, I had a normal life and not a very easy one.
I like to share my story with children, and they are amazed by the story.
You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin.
Racism is a grown-up disease, and we should stop using our kids to spread it.
We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. I think that is very sad.
Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it.
None of our kids come into the world knowing anything about disliking one another.
Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.
My message is really that racism has no place in the hearts and minds of our children.
I think that racism is ugly and so unfair, and I believe that we all need one another.
I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that's a shame.
I wanted to use my experience to teach kids that racism has no place in hearts and minds.
I had never seen a white teacher before, but Mrs. Henry was the nicest teacher I ever had.
I believe that we have to come together, and we have to rely on the goodness of each other.
Throughout my life, my prayers have actively sustained me - held me up, carried me through.
Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn - and only from us.
My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.
When the scary subject of race is finally broached, kids want to talk and talk. It's very satisfying.
Somehow, it always worked. Kneeling at the side of my bed and talking to the Lord made everything okay.
We have tolerance, respect, and equality in our written laws but not in the hearts of some of our people.
Evil looks like you and I. I know what evil looks like, and I know that it comes in all shades and colors.
It's time to get past our racial differences. We owe it to our children to help them keep their clean start.
We may not all be equally guilty. But we are all equally responsible for building a decent and just society.
Administrations and administrative faculty work very hard to see that schools are diverse as much as possible.
It's not who you're going to sit beside at school that matters now: it's what resources will your school have.
If we are about what is good today, then we that are good need to come together to fight what's bad out there.
I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.
Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children of their innocence.
My mother and our pastor always said you have to pray for your enemies and people who do you wrong, and that's what I did.
If we're gonna get past our our racial differences, it's gonna come from our kids, but they have to be together to do that.
My family - my mother and father had gone through such a hard time that by the time I graduated from sixth grade, they were separated.