"The greatest asset of a race is its culture."

"All my life, I have been a black woman. I have never been anything else."

"Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore."

"I like myself when I am laughing. And then I think that is the best way to like yourself. To be laughing."

"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell."