the first step in claiming yourself is anger. You get mad. And you can't do anything before you get angry. And I recommend getting very angry to everyone, anyone.

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

Kent had begun sleeping with his good eye open, for he knew the mark of sedition when he saw it. Even partway blinded, who could see it better?

I always take credit for my acts of cruelty. To do otherwise is cowardice.

Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.

Nobody who was shooting dice wanted to get a dance.

I heard there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft.

If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?

If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.

A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear, and powerful in the midst of emotional 'storms'.