What I’m suggesting is that the essence of leadership is soundness and that the essence of soundness is soul, which paradoxical as you might think it is, is that child within.

It is time to climb the mountains of our mind

People who simply live their life and care only about bearing children are under the influence of a misbelief that they are people

...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.

Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.

Why, if its going to be allright, do we see it getting worse every day?

It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.

That [race] is still part of what [Barack Obama] is riding on. Except that, too, is diminishing.

And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.

My husband asked for the separation and I supported it. We had struggled to keep it going, but obviously we'd both run out of steam.

Service broadens your vision widens your awareness. Deepens your compassion.

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.