You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.

It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color.

You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.

We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.