"If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My efforts go into that cup, not what people think about it."-Denzel Washington

"Money and success don't change people. They merely amplify what is already there."- Will Smith

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."-Alice Walker

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration, it's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."-Muhammad Ali

"If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair." -Shirley Chisholm

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."-Maya Angelou

"When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes." -Oprah Winfrey

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." -Rosa Parks

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated."-Coretta Scott King