To Love oneself is Ok but, to love only oneself isn't!

I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.

One who does not believe in the self is an atheist. If you believe in yourself, then you are the most religious person on earth.

For me, adoption was grief in reverse.

In war the moral is to the material as three to one. Napoleon

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.

I like bringing smiles to people's faces.

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.