I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

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.

When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.

If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?

My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.