Nobody's free until everybody's free.

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.

It's time for America to get right.

I’ll support whatever you decide. I’llhelp you any way I can. What’s mine isyours, okay? If you need something, I’ll make sure you have it, however I have to get it. -- Jason Dorsey

The birthing wolf, Her heart fed with tenderness, Gave forth from ripe brown nipples, Food to feed the universe.

Education is a great treasure.

Connected knowers do not measure other people's words by some impersonal standard. Their purpose is not to judge but to understand.

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

I do feel free, I have patched things up with my ex-husband to the degree of this real friendship. We spend a lot of time together as a family with our son, no way will we be man and wife again.

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.