I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.

Revolution is not a one time event.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.

If this society ascribes roles to Black men which they are not allowed to fulfill, is it Black women who must bend and alter our lives to compensate, or is it society that needs changing?

What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope.

Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that they do not exist at all.

No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman.

Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity.

Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.

The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.

If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly reject that assumption - that John Ashcroft is a openminded, inclusive person.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

I realized I loved you, and I didn't want to be married to somebody I didn't love. I wanted to be married to you. It isn't all that complicated.

I love Rob Schneider.

Simi? What was it you told me once about families? We have three kinds of family. Those we are born to, those who are born to us, and those we let into our hearts.

The Stormy life can be braved Only by the heart's Sunny meditations.

I do not think I am entitled to assess the President of the United States. This is up to the American people.