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

I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I would know my letters.

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Believe in yourself, learn, and never stop wanting to build a better world.

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

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.