Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.

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

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

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.

Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend. It could be you. You never know when a little love, a little support will plant a small seed of hope.

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.