Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult.

The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.

There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

There is only one thing to learn and that is how to love and be love.

Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.

I don't think you necessarily have to put away your summer closet to go into fall. You can incorporate the fall pieces into your normal summer wardrobe.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.

He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.