Hettie Simmons Love

"“I don’t really understand how anybody cannot be an activist in this time and age. We all have an opportunity to be who we want to be, to encourage our children to be what they want to be, and to provide for them so they can become the people they want to be."

"I’d done a lot of reading, and I felt like the North was the place to be,” she said. “There was nothing to do in my hometown that used what I had. I had no freedom. Back in those days, every job you could get had to be with a Black company because no one else was hiring Black women."

"“Having come from the South, it didn’t bother me, because I wasn’t used to talking to white people, anyway,."

"There were all kinds of organizations in the Black community who were glad to accept me."