The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

A trustworthy marriage has weathered temptation and anger and jealousy, resentment, self-righteousness and a little bit of selfishness. When you get over and get through that, then maybe you can see the light to love.

My dream was I was going to be an actor. Racism occurred to me. It dawned on me that I would not be an actor. It occurred to me that I was not white. It occurred to me that being what they call colored, being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage.

Revolutionaries don't get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter--after the big bullets make feet out of their knees.

Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.