The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

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.

He's the King of all the heavensAnd all found here below.To Him, your hearts are like this lakeReflecting in His glow.

A memory is lodged in the mind but a feeling inhabits the whole body

Do not forget to be good to yourself.

My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION.

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.