No matter where I turned [as president
of Spelman College], I saw a reflection of myself. I saw black women, women
in leadership, women professors, women intellectuals--words we rarely put
together. And one of my tasks was to make us so at ease with being black
women that we could reach out to the rest of the world.
--Johnnetta Cole
Photo by Annemarie Poyo
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