Of my two `handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.

Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.

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

I am and always will be a catalyst for change.

Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.