On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.

You can't win what you don't fight for.

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.

Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

Men without jobs do not form families.

Discovering how the Universe will manifest all of your dreams for you is going to be an exciting journey that will harmonize the trinity of your mind, body and spirit.

I loved him with a passion of which I had no idea I was capable. I loved him partly to defend him against the world and partly because I genuinely believed we were soul mates.

Every girl needs a bit of whimsy to remind her that life is a game and it's all about having fun.

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry's program planners believe.

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.

Eddie Murphy is just so off-the-cuff and can make anything funny. You hope that someday you'll acquire that skill, but maybe you're born with that.

I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.