Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'