While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long.

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

Stop using the word 'Negro.' The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not represent a country or anything else ... I am an African-American.

It is only through the home that a people can become really good and truly great.

As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head

To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

Lifting as they climb onward and upward they go struggling and striving and hoping that the buds and blossoms of their desires may burst into glorious fruition ere long.

To the lack of incentive to effort which is the awful shadow under which we live may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

Power is Power, " Bryan says."People want anything they think will give them an edge.

I looked up from my writing, And gave a start to see, As if rapt in my inditing, The moon's full gaze on me.

I hit the ball early and move my wrist a lot, so I get bigger angles.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Technology sounds quick and easy, but it ends up taking up too much of your time.

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?

The only thing permanent is change.

Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

Humility is not simply feeling small and useless - like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is, and seeing myself in that light.