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

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.

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.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

Every thought has the power to spread its effects on other minds as a wave can spread all over the ocean.

Franny understood then that grace was not like a present. It could not be given, and it could not be taken away.

Those who walk the talk get the work.

If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It’s called a lobotomy.

Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.

The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.

Do as you like--if you know what it is.

There was a time in my recuperation and healing where I just had to tell myself it is just time to get up and live your life the way you want to live.

The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.

We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.