I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member.

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

Perhaps there's given up being magic because people didn't believe in it any more.

[On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.

The downside of being a dean is that I'd rather drop off my son at (Michael Jackson's) Neverland Ranch than go to all those meetings.

Heights don't bother me...It's falling and cracking my skull that freaks me out.

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

Viv Anderson has pissed a fatness test.

No matter how quietly homophobia is whispered, it doesn't make it any less loud. You can't whisper hate.

Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.

Let me ask you, do you love your freedom that you have here in America? Well, so do I.