Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year.

The nice thing about HOPE is that you can give it to someone else, someone who needs it even more than you do, and you will find you have not given yours away at all.

There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.

We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance