"When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story."

“I think that we have to be aware that people are allowed to make mistakes”

“It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.”

Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

“If I remain true to what's in my heart, that's all the success I need.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I run behind her, letting her stay a few steps ahead of me so if she happens to fall I’ll be there to laugh at her first and then help her up afterwards.”

“This is what marriage is all about - Man and woman walking together, wherein the husband helps his wife to become ever more a woman, and wherein the woman has the task of helping her husband to become ever more a man.”

“When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.”

“There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.”

“By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.”