The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: strength.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?

Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.

I think my 3:27 for 1500m is worth 7:21 for 3000m.

I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity. But many years ago, my father said he wanted me to run the brewery and he'd do politics.

The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.