The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

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

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

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.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly.

It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.

Ultra competitive people who always need to win end up enjoying things less.

My motto - sans limites.

A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.

It is illegal to steal my feelings and leave

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse us to exertion.

While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.