In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

The greatest blessing is that, within all of this, I've still been challenged every day to question and show who I am.

True holiness is not achieved by what we do, but what we allow God to do in us.

We use NVC to evaluate ourselves in ways that engender growth rather than self-hatred.

Live the dream, Potato.

Your self-image is as ephemeral as the play of light dancing on the surface of the water.

If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.