Never underestimate the power of helplessness!

When a baby first looks at you...when it laughs that deep, unselfconscious gurgle; or when it cries and you pick it up and it clings sobbing to you...then you are-happy is not the precise word-filled.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

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'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?