That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.

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.

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

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.

I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.

A selfish living is a wasteful living

Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.

You should be able to quit ten things you're good at to master one thing you're best at.

We all have our demons, I just happen to exorcise mine by writing them out.

I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work.

At this point of time in history, I don't think that women in any work force that's a male-dominated work force have the same rules to play or live by as men do.

Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.

It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators all, and I recommend to you this moral: In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.

It's a safe bet that someone who tells you you need to calm down has never actually seen you when you needed to calm down.