When you know better you do better.

Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.