I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.