I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.

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?

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.

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.

No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence...

Wisdom defines the limits of one's knowledge and responsibility pushes one beyond those limits

I have forgiven Sonora. I have forgiven New York, forsaken the recursion of history. But I do not yet know how to forgive myself.

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

I will make you an offer you cannot refuse

It was an amazing experience to work with Michael Jackson, who is a legend.