If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.

Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.