“I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around”

It is unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.

Don’t be like the rest of them, darling.

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Women think of all colors except the absence of color.

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

A woman with good shoes is never ugly!

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

Where should one use perfume?” a young woman asked. “Wherever one wants to be kissed.

Elegance is refusal.

Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice who I am for who they think I should be.

You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.

She was a restless soul, born with black wings and gypsy heart.

The courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior. The mere fact that a school is black does not mean that it is the product of an unconstitutional violation.

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it’s at the bottom. It’s the people who are in school systems that don’t educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

Today’s Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

Even as someone who’s labeled a conservative – I’m a Republican I’m black, I’m heading up this organization in the Reagan administration – I can say that conservatives don’t exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they’re welcome.