A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.

There is always a price to be paid to be a success if you are ready to pay then success is all yours.

Etchings endure, But not in SandMeanings Collide To Unresolved FragmentsCodes fizzle to StaticThey are not lostBut UnheardNever lostFading slowly to SilenceBy infinite degrees

Never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance in the world to pursue your dreams.

And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill - do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.

Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?

When we deconstruct how radical evil occurs we realize that it is anything but spontaneous combustion. You need pyromaniacs.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.