Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually -- without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about.

This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.

The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.

In a society of thinking humanity, it should always be, humans first, and then Gods, Krishna or otherwise.

Survivors lived with their mistakes.

Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.

Remember: People who live in glass houses can see you masturbating in their bushes.

If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition

You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.

He's confident. He knows what he's good at and he has people around him to help him. (on Freddy Adu)

I have not come to Kashi to seek votes but to connect with the people and understand their problems.

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.