There is no come back to caves. We are too many.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

A human being is a deciding being.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission