Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

It does not matter whatsoever, what the people around you think you can or cannot do. What really matters is what you think about your capabilities.

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.

Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.

I would never want to vilify somebody who considered abortion murder. I was an illegitimate child myself. I may not have existed today.

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.

Don't be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don't forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.

I don't think anyone would think that an ellipsis represents doubt or anything. I think it's more, you know, hinting at the future. What lies ahead.

An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.