If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it will take away from what I have. It's just ignorance.