I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.
I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want.
Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.
Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.
Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to the U. S. The immigration guys kick the star out of my stardom.
Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
Show, not tell, right? Action, not words. You don’t want to hear how sorry I am or how things will be different this time. You want to see it with your own eyes. And until I can show you that, you won’t tell me what I want to hear.