"Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore."

"I would not exchange my life for any other. I have enjoyed every minute of it."

"It is human to want to be better than you are."

"White people are not the problem. It is the problem of white people that they think they are the problem."

"Dat's what makes a man and woman. It's in de mind. It ain't in de body."