Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

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.

The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.

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

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

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

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.