Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

If it is only one thing in life that you have or allowed to discover, then it must be your significance.

If God can only relate with us based on our level of knowledge that means God is limited to our ignorance.

I believe I gather strength from the generations of women who came before me - that together we all hold the suffering of the world.

There is no such thing as weak competition

There is no such thing as magic. Just that which you do not understand.

Since even the most fastidious among us can rarely escape hearing salacious local gossip, it is as well to enjoy what cannot be avoided.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

Down the blue night the unending columns press In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow

You have good days and bad days.

I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.