I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?

An action made by a unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common though and interpretation.

I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital.

Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

Lust is easy. Love is hard. Life is most important.

Not the why but the what.

This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.

All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing.

I read a lot of 'Spark Notes' in high school.

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.