Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.

Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!

I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.

I'm kind of a quiet leader, and I just try to lead by example. But then sometimes you have to say something.

But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.

I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow

I think it's important to be happy before you can make anybody else happy.

Ah, stupid, you know I love you, too.

I believe that God is the Great Companion, that we are not left orphans, that we may have comradeship with him.

When you are equal with another person, the problem of integration doesn't even arise.

People are much more interesting than people realise.