I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder-in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.

A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.