Brenda Lawrence: “I just want to close with some words of wisdom from Black women who absolutely have inspired me. ``It's not the load…”

“I just want to close with some words of wisdom from Black women who absolutely have inspired me. ``It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it,'' Lena Horn. ``I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that,'' Anita Hill. ``Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts,'' Nikki Giovanni. ``Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.'' That is the legendary Marian Wright Edelman. And I close on an amazing woman we have talked so much about: ``Service is the rent that you pay for room on this Earth,'' Shirley Chisolm. Mr. Speaker, I am so proud to be a woman in America and to be blessed by God with this beautiful, Black skin and to be a Black woman in America.”