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

The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?

It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.

We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world, learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.

These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.

No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.

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

If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

The success of every single woman is the inspiration for another.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

What makes me most happy is connecting with others. I love meeting new people, being social, and engaging in empowering discussions.

My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.