Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.
The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished
Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.
Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom. . . . Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom - his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom.
There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.
All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
I know what I liked as a child, and I don’t do any book that I, as a child, wouldn’t have liked.
I'm holding up, Lord willing and the creek don't rise.
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands, but at leastin our thoughts where we may dispose of them at our whim, which gives us the illusion of power over them.
You want The Next Big Thing? Let me take my pants off!