Things could change so entirely, in a heartbeat; the world could be made entirely anew, because someone was kind.

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.

I'm definitely a romantic, I don't think life is really worth all the pain and effort and struggling if you don't have somebody that you love very much

You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Sherry Carroll is a real life Penny Lane and one wonders if she hasn't got Cameron Crowe or Lester Bangs hidden somewhere in her suburban basement.

After you, it's all cheap tequila.

Poverty - one thing money can't buy.

To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?

Baby it's you. You're the one I love. You're the one I need. You're the only one I see.

The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.

I'm okay, you're okay. Now let's go to work.

I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.

It's not just a sunset; it's a moonrise too.