To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

There is nothing prettier in thewhole wide world than a girlin lovewith every breath she takes.

We live in a universe made up of energy. The energy that binds, as it whirls and swirls physical atoms, exists at varying levels of vibration and frequency.

I've hung on for a long time in this business and had some success, and I think it's keeping an open mind and being curious and having a sense of humor about oneself that's important.

We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

At Arsenal me and Patrick (Vieira) didn't want to face Scholes. We would avoid him.

So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker Jack box.

It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman.

It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.

I tell the truth through music. Other people tend to catch on and agree with my truth and it turns out we are all really similar.

Sometimes one must travel far to discover what is near.