"Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no careWho..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.”

“In a false quarrel there is no true valor.”

“Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?”

“I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.”

“Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living.”

“Free should be the scholar - free and brave.”

“Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.”

“Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?”

“Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!”