As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.

I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.

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.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.