We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

There is the will of the people

Disease may be defined as 'A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

I believe there are and will be major opportunities to enhance Time Warner's value in future combinations.

Home is the seminary of all other institutions.

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.

I don't have a set routine, but I try to squeeze in a workout every day, whether it's taking a hike, taking a Pilates class, or just putting in a workout DVD. Whatever it takes!

Everything can be temporary, except us.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.