If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.

Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.