[Martin Luther] King was one of the two young ministers - and you know how directly oriented the Negro community still is towards the minister as the leader.

In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.

Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.

I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.

Give light, and people will find the way...

I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.

My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

Ay call it holy ground The soil where first they trod. They have left unstained what there they found - Freedom to worship God.

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

Do not speak - unless it improves on silence.

I hate how when I have a bunch of events going on and I have to get my hair done so much, [then] I have to wash it more often. It's definitely better not to.

My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.

We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.

I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.

We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?

The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.