The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored