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

I was born black and female.

It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.

Ah, I like the look of packing crates! A household in preparation for a journey! ... Something full of the flow of life, do you understand? Movement, progress...

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture -- in front of us -- our own little mirage that we think is the future.

Mama - Mama - I want so many things... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.