Black Men: It's Our Responsibility to Change the Dynamic!

W.E.B. Du Bois, Jackie Robinson, Ralph Ellison, Clarence Thomas, Al Sharpton, Shaquille O'Neal, Samuel L. Jackson. All are black men who grew up without their biological fathers. More than half of the nation's 5.6 million black boys live in fatherless households, 40 percent of which are impoverished.

- quoted in the December 14, 2007 Washington Post article 'The Ghost of a Father' profiling Barack Obama