It's too easy to say this or that is "race," and that has been a vehicle for an incredible amount of wrong in the world.

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.

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.

Media is so influenceable, yet so influent. Whoever controls the media controls the society, and its opinion.

Rick Berman, who produced Star Trek, was a big Night Court fan. So he knew who I was as soon as I walked in.

I know our policies work best to lift young men and women up - regardless of their background - so that they can choose their own path and live lives of dignity, purpose, and meaning.

Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.

Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.

You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.

Republican attacks are without basis, but when the Democrats attack me they're usually right.

Botox to me is not surgery.

We must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to show this administration that the true majority of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment and won't back down.