When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?

If the door has been opened and I've been invited, or if I'm not invited and I somehow know I'm supposed to go in there, I put myself together and go in, praying all the while. I try to learn something before I go in. I try to show some respect of the place I'm going into.

The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history.

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.

We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better.

I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.