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.

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.

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.

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

We have to be ready for the blessings God tosses at us. In order to catch your blessing, you have to let go of your burden.

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied.

I believe that anything can be for men or women. I mean, I've worn a lace dress before!

A woman is as young as her knees.

..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.