My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people.

I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year.

Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody.

We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.