The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give.
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.
Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt
When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.
I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory.