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

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

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.

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

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

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

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.