We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to confront twenty-first-century realities.

Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest achievement. We have to turn that around.

You factor in racism as a reality and you keep moving.

You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient.

You can get the man out of stone-age, but not stone-age out of man.

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

There will be no more protests. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia. The voice of Halla. Your voice." "There goes freedom of speech," I said.

In our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.

It is only life and love that give love and life.

I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.