We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.

We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.

America may not be the best nation on earth, but it has conceived loftier ideals and dreamed higher dreams than any other nation. America is a heterogeneous nation of many different people of different races, religions, and creeds. Should this experiment go forth and prosper, we will have offered humans a new way to look at life; should it fail, we will simply go the way of all failed civilizations.

Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.

I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.