“To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.”

When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.

We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.

The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.

He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.

We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.

Keep hope alive!

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!

When you seek to dominate another you dominate no one but disempower yourself.

The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.

When I’m speaking on stage I feel my most empowered and my most vulnerable. So much could go wrong. That tension is such a rush.

Whenever you become empowered, you will be tested.

The loving personality seeks not to control, but to nurture, not to dominate, but to empower.

I’m not out burning bras, but I’m very opinionated about women owning their power.

I sound like such a tool, but becoming a mother has made me next-level confident. I’ve never felt more empowered.

Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.