There must be a mirror to show the soul to itself before the soul can begin to gather its courage.

Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?

What if we were to take seriously the possibility that our students have a rich and authoritative inner life and tried to nourish it rather than negate it?

The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.

What do you do for ecstasy?

We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.

I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.

My dog keeps looking at me as if he knows my secret, as if he and he alone can see my soul. That or he wants this pork chop.

The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from God's world because God made us to be creative.

We must have an America in which White men and women can live and work, in their homes and in the streets of our cities, without fear.

Paint what you like and die happy

It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.

About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.

He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.

We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!