The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.

If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.

We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.

Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.