"Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew." -Cicely Tyson

"No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow." -Alice Walker

"I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."  -Harriet Tubman

"So the simple truth is, when women succeed America succeeds; and we should be choosing policies that benefit women because that benefits all of us." -Barack Obama

" Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself."  -Tyra Banks

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life; and that's why I succeed." -Michael Jordan

"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read." -Mary McLeod Bethune

"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."       -Malcolm X

" I got my start by giving myself a start." -Madam C.J. Walker

"The most important thing is to try to inspire people so they can be great in whatever they want to do."     -Kobe Bryant