It's dangerous, son.' 'What's dangerous?' 'When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.

American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.

I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.

One for whom bread- food- is not enough.

I was born black and female.

This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.

A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their nature (i.e., oppressed) forever in ferment and agitation against their condition and what they understand to be their oppressors. If not by overt rebellion or revolution, then in the thousand and one ways they will devise with and without consciousness to alter their condition