I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….

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.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.

We're all of us haunted and haunting.

Nobody, I mean nobody, puts ketchup on a hot dog.

Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.

Intelligence guided by the will using memory and imagination assisted by intuition.

The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.

They [Goverment] take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.