It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.

I am the dream and the hope of the slave

It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it.