New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

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.

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

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.

It's difficult being an intellectual in a bread and butter sort of town.

A book is a writer's will:ideas are the inheritance.

I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.

Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.

Beta decay was... like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it.

I'm not optimistic at all, nor am I pessimistic.

I want to start a trend of women as we really look. Some good things, some not so good. I am tired of looking at frozen faces.

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

He said to play louder. He can't hear you.