How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

Anything that smiles often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place.

The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing ‘Sleep sweet sleep’. (The Children of Ankh series) Kim Cormack

Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.

My brother never had me to dinner in his life.

Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.

It doesn't matter what size you are. It matters how big your heart is and how smart you are.

The greatest truths are commonly the simplest.

There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.

When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before.

I like the sound a typewriter makes.