One's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.

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.

When you have defined yourself, circumstances don’t define you – they only refine you.

They ought to bury people in hospitals and let sick people get well in the cemeteries.

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

I've learned... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.

Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history.

If you have the desire, if you really had people with the burning desire to lower taxes, it would be done. We know the Democrats don't want to do it.

Good grief. You two look like Village of the Sofa Damned. (Cassandra)