I really saw clearly, and for the first time, why a mother is really important. Not just because she feeds and also loves and cuddles and even mollyc… - Maya Angelou

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence — neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish — it is an imponderably valuable gift.

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.