Someone like you makes the sun shine brighter. Someone like you makes a sigh half a smile. Someone like you makes my troubles much lighter. Someone like you make life seem worthwhile.

It’s important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country.

May our spirit fill us with understanding of victory and defeat, the gift of collaboration, the wisdom to choose the right path, and opportunities that inspire hope.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

Sometimes... I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won't allow us to make our own.

To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.

The goal isn't to be perfect, but to be authentic!

What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?

Creativity in its fullest sense includes both generating an idea and manifesting it- making something happen as a result.

I knew it was unrealistic to think I could build an institution overnight. But if I took baby steps, eventually it would happen.

It's not supernatural. It's something normal.