Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

To those of you with your years of service still ahead, the challenge is yours. Stop doubting yourselves. Have the courage to make up your minds and hold your decisions. Refuse to be BOUGHT for a nickel, or a million dollars, or a job!

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

In each experience of my life, I have had to step out of one little space of the known light, into a large area of darkness. I had to stand awhile in the darkness, and then gradually God has given me light. But not to linger in. For as soon as that light has felt familiar, then the call has always come to step out ahead again into new darkness.