I left my homeland but kept in my heart its likeness, and also its name.

Light! Light! Let it shine in our hearts, even if the whole world grows dark. Let it spread from our hearts, even if all horizons grow dim.

Be a Balm. Do good, though you may not be recompensed by a word of thanks.

The whole earth is my homeland, and all of humanity is my family.

To whom does she belong, the green cedar with roots in the East but whose shade extends to the West?

I chose America as a dear homeland. I sought in her a life of freedom, and that I have found.

Woman is the oldest and greatest school known to humankind

Yet I listen to myself, for within me are strings, and a song.

It is for us in the American diaspora to study the meaning of freedom and carry it back home.