I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

I want to feel you up like we're sixteen in the backseat of a car. On the outside of your clothes, " he said just above a whisper. "Touch you all over, then slide my hands up under your shirt.

He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.

Every journey starts with fear.

Who I am inside determines how I feel about my body instead of the other way around

Joy is God in the marrow of our bones.

Nothing to be gained by worrying between now and then.

Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

The fool rushed to certain conclusions. The middling man approached them warily, and with circumspection. And the wise man, perceiving them from afar, decided to go round another way.