to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.

the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in schools, and exalting it as freedom.

witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.

We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.

To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos, ' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.

The absurd man is he who never changes.

Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.

Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.

Never worry about what you're going lose but what you're going gain

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

Inner mental technique is more important than the physical one.

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.

Maybe part of my animus against the English is the way they have always treated the Irish and they way they still think about the Irish.

Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.