Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.
I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.
I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
Black women. . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.
Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.
By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.
Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life
Only art means anything.
If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.
We are paying teachers who are in charge of our human capital, arguably more important than our financial capital, a very tiny fraction of what Wall Streeters are paid.