I realized that part of that anger was because I didn't know who I was and where I came from. I didn't know my history.

It’s important to have relationships with the people at the archives.

I'm not saying we all have to love each other. I'm not saying we all have to agree with each other. I'm not even saying we have to like each other but let's respect each other.

I was not allowed to be an individual. I was black and I was a woman - and I was a black woman.

The truth will set you free.

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

To live is often only to have a choice of several despairs.

Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes.

The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.

I have a huge amount of stress, but I believe stress can be a positive thing too.

Change is a natural form of progression.