I very much dislike the word "race," and I never use it. I use the word "racist." Race is not a fact. There is only one race: human. Skin color is less than 2 percent of the DNA.

I don't want to die leaving the world as it is right now.

The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact which every human being should know about. We are a species that makes changes.

More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible

It's hard for me to talk about the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime because they didn't need to be.

Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.