A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Better a little hardship now than a great deal of loss or suffering forever, and a third alternative simply does not exist.

One thing you notice about progress, kid, is that it doesn't happen to everyone.

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

When you get up in the morning, you merely put on your clothes. When a colored man gets up in the morning, he puts on his armor.

Play what you know and then play above that

The Arab and Islamic nation has lost a great man and one of its fearless men who dedicated his life to the service of the people of this nation and their aspirations.