For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

Believe in yourself, learn, and never stop wanting to build a better world.

A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny, if she prizes her individuality and puts no boundaries on her hopes for tomorrow.

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.

We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity.

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.

Our children must never lose their zeal for building a better world.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

The Bible is God speaking to mankind. The more you read the Bible, the more you will hear God speaking to you.

Between each inhale and exhale we die and are reborn.

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

Happy thoughts create happy molecules, and healthy thoughts create healthy molecules.

The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get.

In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!

There is room for us all to be how we actually are.

Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.

I love to go to the movies with people, but a lot of the time it's me in a room with a bunch of other movie critics, which is fine.