No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.