Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.

You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.

I thought about Emmett Till, and I could not go back. My legs and feet were not hurting, that is a stereotype. I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.

Why do you all push us around?

Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.