Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

I thought about black women and wondered how we got to be the way we were. In our country, white men were always in superior positions; after them came white women, then black men, then black women, who were historically on the bottom stratum. How did it happen that we could nurse a nation of strangers, be maids to multitudes of people who scorned us, and still walk with some majesty and stand with a degree of pride?

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

I believe that every person is born with talent.