What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

Death is easy, living difficult.

In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

You can't die. Bodies come and go but your spirit is eternal. You're the stuff that life is.

If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.

The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself.

Unless liberty flourishes in all lands, it cannot flourish in one.

I was a Republican until I got to New York and had to live on $18 a week. It was then that I became a Democrat.

I definitely would rather take a nap than get angry.