If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

A societies needs determines their ethics

I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.