Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'

We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.

A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.

Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don't feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don't like the destination and you look behind and you don't want to return to that place, step off the road.

I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. 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.

I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals.