The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

And she laughed, a full octave, descending from high C like chimes.

Religion is like wax. How anyone deals with it is decisive for how it will look like.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them, ' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

Others tell like it is, while I tell it how I would like it to be.

My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life.

Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

Space is the ultimate frontier. I think when people historically thought of the frontier, there was where you were living and then there was some edge beyond which no one had explored.

Im not attracted to expensive things.

Nature is interested in only two things--to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man.