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

There may be women to emerge who will be able to formulate a new and possible concept that homosexual persecution and condemnation has at its roots not only social ignorance, but a philosophically active anti-feminist dogma.

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

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

What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't nothing as precious to me...There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else--

I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world -- constantly. The world or 'life' may seem to more often overwhelm the human being's capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.

Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?