Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring.

I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting.

Let me learn now where Beauty is; I was born to know her mysteries . . .

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity, Or draw a line daring them to cross.

Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Now in a more apt time?

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.

It would be a great disappointment for you to give up on yourself before the appointed time to reap the fruit of your labor.

I married my love in the springtime, / but by summer he’d locked me away. / He’d murdered me dead by the autumn, / and by winter I was naught but decay

The man's father is a wonderful human being. I think this guy is a loser.

Dirt is not dirty, but only something in the wrong place.

Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.

I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.

We cannot have peace on Earth until we learn to speak with one voice. That voice must be the voice of reason, the voice of compassion, the voice of love. It is the voice of divinity within us.

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.