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.

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

Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.

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

Big Walter used to say, he'd get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and say, 'Seem like God didn't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while.'

I was born black and female.