Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

you would see more Willie Mays coming out of the inner city.