Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world.

I don't follow politics it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?

Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized version of what human beings do whenever they interact.

The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it.

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

The Washington Post was interesting because it's such a politically minded newspaper.

In a concurrent world, imperative is the wrong default!

"It pleases the Father that ALL fulness" should be there; and therefore there is nothing but emptiness anywhere else.

I have an obsession with just watching people and what they're into.