“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.”   —   Maya Angelou

“No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.”  —  George Washington Carver

“I was offered a scholarsip that would have taken me to Paris but I turned it down because I realized that my true responsbiulity was to go back and try to help people who were exactly like my family.  So I listened to the little voice and got on the plane and went to Mississippi.”  —  Alice Walker