Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.

Nobody can enjoy unless we all enjoy, truly enjoy.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.

If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.