The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit

Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

I will design myself a reputation, in which prospects can place their trust, and customers return to and recommend.

It ain't so easy writing about nothin

out of the frying pan and into the fire

Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

Live every day like it is your last and learn everyday like you will live forever

The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.

Art should never be popular.

I'm happy. I have a man who makes me happy. And a family, which is what I most wanted in life.