Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

I thought I'm going to die. So why can't I do everything? And what is this idea that I worked all day yesterday, so I'm tired today? I've never believed that.I thought, "Just suppose I could choreograph a ballet." And I did it. Suppose I could teach dance at the theater in Cleveland. And I did it. Suppose I could sing for a living - that I could stop these two jobs as a waitress and a salesperson.

Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.

Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.