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

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

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

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.

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