Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Virtue knows no color line, and the chivalry which depends upon complexion of skin and texture of hair can command no honest respect.

When you're through changing, you're through.

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we lose faith in ourselves.

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.