I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle.

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.

At what point does "one day" become today?

You eat with your left hand. That's unacceptable. Can you do it with your right?""Can you do it with your left?

A company has integrity when its words and actions consistently match the branding effort.

Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.

May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.

Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.

I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them.

As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.

In this town [L.A], I guess it takes homosexuals to be discriminated against in order for someone to finally step UP and wanna do something.