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.

To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.

I am and always will be a catalyst for change.

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

The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.

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.

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.