If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets.

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

I refused to take no for an answer.

The air is the only place free from prejudices.

Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!

There's a book for everyone, even if they don't think there is. A book that reaches in and grabs your soul.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

There is no such thing as constructive criticism.

When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to confirm that he hasn't any brothers.

There's always a tomorrow and the hope of something new.

A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind those colours there hides the final cataclysm.

Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.