Continue to plant a kiss of concern on the cheek of the sick and the aged and infirm and count that actions as natural and to be expected.

Remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

Preach it, I say preach it.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

Freedom is never free.