I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice--to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?

-- that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.

If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat a little of her dinner. Maybe she could have a minute's worth of peace.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

The night glittered brilliantly then.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race.

Broaden your vision, and maintain stability while advancing forward. That is my philosophy.

The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America.

A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge

We get something to do and as soon as we've got it, it gets us.