Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a tenaciousness with us. We do not fear losing friends, allies, or jobs.

I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.

Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal will be about socializing...uh, um...Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies.

We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

You cannot be successful and continue to be a victim.

I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

I am not afraid of anybody. This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.

Others say that that's not good for the country [to resist Donald's Trump ] and that they should work with this new administration on policies.

If [Donald Trump] wants to do good things, let's see it. Let him do it. I can't stop him from doing good things.

It shouldn't take a life-changing event for you to change your life.

I carefully returned the files to my mother’s drawer and left the house with one objective: find Christina Georgia.

I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.

I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.

I think doing the podcast may have been one of the best career decisions I've ever made in my life.

When I leave the body someday, I can help people just as effectively if they focus upon me.

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

I think 'Make love, not war' might be the most profound statement that's ever been made.

I'm Cuban and I always will be.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.