"That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home."
"Segregation shaped me; education liberated me."
"A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing.She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself"
"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better."
"I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true."
"I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it."