"I don't know anything about records. I just know that I'm gonna break the record."

"Nothings gonna happen it's simply an airplane."

"It's been a long day. I can't wait until the next day. I can't wait to sleep. I had two hours of sleep last night."

"Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain?"

"One can live there and feel quite at home because one can lose his heart to any country, and it is a commonplace that…"

"That’s it… You just called it for me!"

"Every no takes me closer to a yes."

"I was black, I was female, and I wanted to fly. We used to pick cotton in Texas, and I'd look up and think, If we're …"

"I read everything I could get my hands on about aviating," she later recalled. "Some of the libraries wouldn't let bl…"

"Blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I have faced," Coleman said. "So I decided to open a flying sch…"