Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.

I'm young as morning and fresh as dew. Everybody loves me and so do you.