How have we lived in the same place for all these years and only just met?Because we weren't meant to meet then. This is our now.

Whatever you entertain becomes educational.

How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!

Agony is not something that happens to you.To agonize is a choice.

I try to contrast life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

My activism did not spring from being black...The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family.

Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.

The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.

I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. To-day it is for thee; tomorrow it is against thee. It arms the eyes of the envious every where. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

I really wanted to emphasize the idea of the women being isolated and abandoned . . . and they weren't raised to take care of themselves, so they had to learn to survive.