If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.

The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.

If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.