You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

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.

Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.

You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.

I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.