There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.

Music felt married to place, and the notion of "somewhere" predated the Internet's seeming invention of "everywhere" (which often ends up feeling like "nowhere").

War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states

A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.

But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.

Television for a child creates such a high bar of stimulus that nothing else competes. A beautiful day is absolute crap to a kid who watches tv.

Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

I think good teachers are underpaid.

If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.

Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.