“I tried. I began to try to help other people to understand black people; my people. Our history. Our culture. Our arts. Our gifts. Our needs. And I began to show folk that it's fun to reach out across customary barriers and boundaries of race and culture to get to know somebody else and to try to be friends with somebody else so that we can work together to make this world better for all of us. ” - Thea Bowman | 
