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 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.

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.

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.

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

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