All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies?

It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.