I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings. They see themselves as so inadequate that they feel forced to wear a mask in order to continuously impress the other. I do not want to "hold" you, I want you to "stay" out of your own need for me.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.