From a commencement address to Spelman College

“There is something in every one of you that waits, listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself— and if you cannot hear it, you will never find whatever it is for which you are searching and if you hear it and then do not follow it, it was better that you had never been born… And if you cannot hear the sound of the genuine in you, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.”