I love listening to music on holiday, and back in the old days, I used to travel with cassette tapes and a boombox.

You are blood. You are sisters. No man can break that bond.

Be yourself and original. You would be appreciated ultimately.

Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar.

The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people.

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench.

If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?

I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.

This is Now. Now is, all there is. Don't wait for Then; strike the spark, light the fire.