In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.

Healing cannot be done by settling a score.

Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.

Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.

In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'