If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.
If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.
I want to be remembered as one who tried.
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.
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.