My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

My great blessing is my son, but I have daughters. I have white ones and Black ones and fat ones and thin ones and pretty ones and plain. I have gay ones and straight. I have daughters. I have Asian ones, I have Jewish ones, I have Muslim ones.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.

I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.