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.

Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

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

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.