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

“No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.”

“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”

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

“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”

“If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!”

“Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight.”