“Helping begins with listening.”

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.

Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children, parasites.

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.

Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.

Healthy relationships should always begin at the spiritual and intellectual levels – the levels of purpose, motivation, interests, dreams,and personality.

I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.

I lift my hands in praise and all else begins to fade, for you are all that matters; lord take all of me.

Where we ended I began.

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.

Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other.

The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.