I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

• The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
• I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
• We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
• You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
• We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
• If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.
• If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.
• When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
• You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
• I have always drawn strength from being close to home.