To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

Don't face the day until you've faced God.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.