Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

Watering a dead flower will not bring it back to life.

Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.

Hillary Clinton has pledged amnesty in her first 100 days, and her plan will provide Obamacare, Social Security, and Medicare for illegal immigrants, breaking the federal budget.

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

Trees indeed have hearts.

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

Talented people have to do what they do. Someone can criticize but you do what you do.

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.

I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.