A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men and people in general.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually -- without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about.

This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.

The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.

That which does not kill you ... probably isn't close enough, so just start running.

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction.

Healing with the clean, pure, beautiful agents of nature is surely the one method of all which appeals to most of us

Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.

It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.

The girls in kindergarten would chase us boys around trying to kiss us. Im proud to say I was the first to stop running.

If anything is leaking, I try to plug the hole.

Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment.

You know a man can play the part of a saint just so long for a day comes when his true, his true self unfolds.