When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.

I believe there is only one race - the human race.

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.

Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.

One person can change the world.

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

Waiters are the help, dear. It's like falling in love with a blender!

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

In the bush, trust no one you don't know.

My mother taught me how to apply my own makeup at 13 years old, and the most important lesson I learned is to never touch my eyebrows and to cleanse, tone, and moisturize twice a day.

There's this man who lives in the sky, and he has ten things he doesn't want you to do, and you'll burn for a long time if you do them. But he loves you.

There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.

I'm in my dream world.

I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

As long as I didn't have to put on the tiara and the chains and the big yellow shirt for the whole series, I was up for anything.