In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself

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

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

Food served is always more than just food served. That is to say, it is more than just fuel for the body. Depending upon who has prepared the food and who has served it and with what spirit, it can uplift the - and around the world, in every culture, food is used to flirt, to be coy, a raise in the employment or to search for employment. It can bring warring factions together.

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

We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.