Don't bring negative to my door.

Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.

You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.

Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true way, and can call all the others false, then you know you're in the company of an ignoramus.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.