The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

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.

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine.And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.

I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last and nothing else but Indians.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

My father was a deeply spiritual, prophetic man, [who] I adored. I watched him pray as a boy and wanted to know the "Jesus" he shed tears for.

To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

In the Quran it is said that from the tears shed by this great angel [Michael] over the sins of the faithful, cherubim are formed.

Jesus is not a good way to heaven, nor even the best way. He is the only way to heaven.