A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.

A Nation can rise no higher than its women

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.

I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.

I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.