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

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

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.

I want to be remembered as one who tried.

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.

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

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