Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity.

Revolution is not a one time event.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.

We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.

If this society ascribes roles to Black men which they are not allowed to fulfill, is it Black women who must bend and alter our lives to compensate, or is it society that needs changing?

What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope.

Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that they do not exist at all.

No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman.

No matter how much experience you have, there’s always something new you can learn and room for improvement.

The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption is supposed to do, dates back well over a century

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

Today NBC makes certain content available online and I can't imagine we will change that process.

Is it a bad sign when the thought of your x-girlfriend makes you say things like, Satan is a myth... I guess.

My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here.

Someone's looking for a lead, in his duty to a king or creed. Protecting what he feels is right, fights against wrong with his life.

I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'

I don't know how it is for you earthlings, but where I'm from, strength is mental.

I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.