Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me when I was a very young child. The first school I attended was a small building that went from first to sixth grade. There was one teacher for all of the students. There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

In it not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport in Montgomery, there is a white waiting room... There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.

I think our devotion to Mary is very beautiful. She has a sacred role in Catholicism, and her strong faith and humility are things we can learn from.

If God exists, then we are spiritual beings, and we have souls, and we are noble inherently.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves.