You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious... love life.

Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.

We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.

Remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind.

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

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

To make a difference is not a matter of accident...People CHOOSE to make a difference.