It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?

I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.

At our best, we are all teachers