Unpaid work never commands respect.

Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.

If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world.

I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.

There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge.

tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!

On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

I am double jointed in my elbow. So I can turn it all the way around and then bend it so it looks like it's broken.

Today's top players only want to play in London or for Manchester United. That's what happened when I tried to sign Alan Shearer and he went to Blackburn.

When even the scrupulously detached BBC is exhorting us to talk to God, you know something is going on.

How was I conceived? Was it love, was I meant, or was I just an accident?

Yesterday, my eyeglass prescription ran out.

Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.