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

When we know better, we do better.

I married a man once and we had been married over a year before I found he preferred potatoes. I said, "I didn't know you loved potatoes." And he said that until he was about 13, he thought rice was potato seeds.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement.

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.