I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.

All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.

The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.

Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.

In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.