The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.

If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.

Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.

Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle.

I wear lashes, of course, a little contour, and a lip. And usually I wear shades, so that helps with not doing my makeup. I can put on a cute little face real quick.

Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.

When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.

You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?

Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?

I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, & am content.