When someone helps you, then that means one thing, all they expect in return is for you to show them what you're doing and for you to help someone else.

Everyone can cook. If you try. If you put a little love into it.

Why can't we have fine black restaurants with fine service by black people who always gave good service? Because we thought that is demeaning and it's not, it's a good living.

You worry too much about what goes into your mouth and not enough about what comes out of it.

You've got to live life to the fullest. You just enjoy every beautiful thing there is to enjoy.

I'm still learning....learning from my great grandchildren and everyone around me. I would advise others to keep trying, stop and listen.

We still have a long way to go but if we work together and we work hard, you'll see black people in positions you never thought we'd be in. I thought I would never see a black President.

Friends are sometimes the only thing that keep us from plunging into the abyss. But you have to reach for them, and they have to be there on the other side of the cliff reaching out to you too.

Perhaps I can't escape the image that others have created for me, but if I don't try, I will never know if I can or not.

Sometimes, it is easier to leave things as they are, rather than to fight, go against the flow.

You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.

Who's the president on the $100 bill? I don't know. I don't need to know because I don't use cash. I only use travelers checks.

Failure is not an American habit.

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.