Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

Everyone these days is concerned so much with privacy and forgets the value of human touch. We still need each other but are scared of how it might sound or appear to the other.

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

I love Don Williams records. And old Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe.

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.

From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

Infatuation was a good thing. It gave spice to life, and added to its enjoyment... But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn't be exchanged for anything.

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

You know, feeling and action are always linked, one can't exist without the other. It's sort of a hippie thing.

Personally making a film solely for the shock value serves no purpose to me.