Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.

...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he lost all interest in himself.