Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually -- without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about.

This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.

The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.

Perhaps the most important factor of leadership is simply taking advantage of the chance to lead.

Have my moments, Doll, have my moments.

But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred.

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

Your faith is what you do daily, you can't separate your heart from your body and keep them both alive, they're almost the same thing.

You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

Let nothing novel be introduced!

I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.