“Live day to day. Make the most of every day. You get no guarantees. None of us do.”

Sue Carroll, who is battling brain cancer nearly a year after losing her husband to cancer while cherishing their time together traveling to national parks across the nation

“Never, ever forget it is our — I repeat, our — responsibility to keep the dream alive for the
betterment of all people.”

Nicole Avery, first lady of Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church, during the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Awards ceremony Sunday at the church

“She has always been fun, and she always has been one step ahead of me.”

Frances Edwards, on the 100th birthday of her mother, Charlotte Taylor

“I keep telling him what a big-time player he is. He’s just got to embrace it.”

James Stinson, men’s basketball coach at Livingstone College, on junior Roger Ray after he led the Blue Bears to a 79-69 win over Claflin last weekend, shooting 9 for 14 from the field and making six 3-pointers

“When people come to a therapist, usually they’re not sharing happy things.”

Wivianny DeHass, a clinical social worker who says she has battled fatigue and burnout and has opened a yoga studio downtown that she hopes will help clients cope with life’s stresses

“It takes a village. I’d be nothing without all the people behind me, and I couldn’t do these projects without the people who support them.”

River Lewis, 22, a recent graduate of Morehouse College now offering mentorship for young men through a nonprofit organization that matches minority business leaders with at-risk boys in Salisbury and Atlanta