It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit
We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.
When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.
Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights. We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.
You want to be in a movie where your part works. That's the main thing. No matter how you beat yourself working on the thing, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
I keep thinking the bad guys will win in the end and take it all away, but somehow it all seems to keep working.
Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.
When I am at home, I never watch TV, but when I am abroad in a hotel I take a look at the BBC to find out what's going on.