“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

“I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.”

“Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me”

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”

“I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.”

“I am nothing, truth is everything.”

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”