We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

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

There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.

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

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity.