the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!

The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.

Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

I wasn't born to cook or clean, but to read and write, if you don't like me the way I am, then go fly a kite.

You cannot become what you already are.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.

I think maybe we underestimate the country music audience.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

Experience is necessary for us to grow.

The only fight you cannot win is the one you are not willing to fight. And the only dream that you cannot make come true is the one you cease to dream.

Whatever your income, always live below your means.

To be successful you must be unique, you must be so different that if people want what you have, they must come to you to get it.