I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

I refused to take no for an answer.

The air is the only place free from prejudices.

If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets.

Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!

For me, I will live so long as I can, however beaten, however maimed. I will do good to those who love me, and harm to those I hate, so long as my lungs draw breath.

I wish i were a little girl again, because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken heart.

Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.

I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.

After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.

I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.