Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.

You can't be what you can't see.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.

In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.