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.

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

We are not a problem people, we are people with problems.

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

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

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

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