Your children need your presence more than your presents.
We have allowed death to change its name from Southern rope to Northern dope. Too many black youths have been victimized by pushing dope into their veins instead of hope into their brains.
Keep your eyes on the prize.
[quoted by Clarence Page] There is nothing more painful to me at this stage of my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps...then turn around and see someone white and feel relieved.