I don't have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating.

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.

To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

The biggest threat against the survival of humanity is not brutality and unkindness, it is stupidity and selfishness.

If the grass is greener on the other side, start watering your own.

You'd be teary, too, yes you would be, " he said, "if a girl and her bed had crashed into your head.

Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.

Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.

I am a majority of one.

There never was a story that was happy through and through.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

I like to talk about America. It's so mysterious.