I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed.

I know why the caged bird sings.

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming.

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.

People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel.

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.