I want to be remembered as one who tried.

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

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

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

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.

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