Quotes about Adaptation

One of the most difficult things is not to change society — but to change yourself.

Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can't drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can't have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

Tolerance like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

Clearly I did not inherit whatever gene it is that makes it so that when you linger in a place you start to put down roots.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

Beware of harking back to what you were once when God wants you to be something you have never been. "If any man will do . . . , he shall know .

Many of us refuse to grow where God plants us. Therefore, we don't take root anywhere.