If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit

Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

My libido was doing the humpy dance while dressed in Milkbone pasties and a thong.

I desired dragons with a profound desire.

My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

Who the heck is Don Quick-oats?

Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter

Be kind to everybody, be grateful, say thank you everyday. My parents taught me well.

Life has very little even ground.

I work in three shades of black.

Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!