“We cannot afford to be separate. . . . We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.”

“We are not a problem people, we are people with problems.”

“...even if you are a token, you have an important function to fulfill.”

“I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor.”

“If I take a finger and touch you, you won't even know you've been tapped. If I take two fingers, you will know that something touched you. But if I bring all of those fingers together in a fist, I can give you a terrible blow!”

“My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.”

“You never teach a subject, you always teach a child. You teach children in a way that they will learn, and then things will fall in place for them.”