When we know better, we do better.

Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

You can't use up creativity, creative thinking builds on itself and increases the creativity of the thinker...You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

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.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, "I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth." Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, "Yes, I deserve it."