50 years old is like springtime to me.

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

The best thing about living... Is the chance to keep on doing it!

My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.

Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

You wouldn't be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you'd be asked to sign your autograph.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you're being slanted until very late in the game.

I found out along the way that they like you a little imperfect.

One must feel fear without allowing fear to control them.

When you put your passion into your desire, when it becomes a fire that threatens to consume you unless you have it, then your will is in the right place.

Big shots are only little shots that keep shooting. I can see your sun rise out of obscurity. Keep shooting

Man created languages, but God created laughter. Humanity can always laugh together even if it can't always speak together.

But I'm here to say that when we do speak out, we're going to do so because the United States of America does believe, and will always stand for, a certain set of universal values.

Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

Beauty,--the fading rainbow's pride.

His glorious Person evokes admiration for and honor of Him, as He imparts His nature into me.

Whilst all the land was ringed with bristling arms And flames laid waste our world, All that was left me was a little garden And thou within it, my beloved, my comrade.

My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appalls