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

My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.

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