Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

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.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

Would you like a cough drop Dolores?

Saying thanks costs nothing but gives everything.

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.

Having a goal and having a dream are different.

I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.

Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.

One of the views of the [actor's] job is that whatever age you are, there's a role that's about who you are and where you are. There are parts for that age that you can bring things to.

Man's existence precedes his essence

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.