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

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

I want to be remembered as one who tried.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

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

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