I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture.

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

To the young man a kind of worship of some power outside himself is essential. one has strength and enthusiasm and wants gods to worship.

Know the one who wants nothing to be the wealthiest.

A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

Experience is a thorough teacher.

You may cross many bridges and you may travel many roads, but you will always carry your own nature with you! Your nature is your shadow!

The light needs only our trust And, of course, the darkness To work its eternal alchemy.

The sheets grow heavy as a lecher's kiss.

To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.

Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.