We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.

I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

I'm a descendant of someone bought and sold, and brought in 1619 in what was to become the United States.