Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY

I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion.

You should not bear insults.

The white woman has never had the co-equal status that the African woman has had.

If you don't like the situation, if you are afraid and can't deal with it, nothing wrong with your legs, get out of there.

I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.

When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.'