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

As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.

I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do.

Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.

One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian.

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.

We have been so patient and loyal ... and what has it gotten us? We want our full share now.