I think of my life as a unity of circles. Some are concentric, others overlap, but they all connect in some way. Sometimes the connections don't happen for years. But when they do, I marvel. As in a shimmering kaleidoscope, familiar patterns keep unfolding

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.

Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit

I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor.

I think of my life as a unity of circles. Some are concentric, others overlap, but they all connect in some way. Sometimes the connections don't happen for years. But when they do, I marvel. As in a shimmering kaleidoscope, familiar patterns keep unfolding

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

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