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

I happen to believe that most people - and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least as they express themselves - I think that virtually every human being is dramatically interesting. Not only is he dramatically interesting, he is a creature of stature whoever he is.

I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

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

I was born black and female.

There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.