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.

We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.

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

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

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

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