Life learned early on to recognize itself..

For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to the subtle….

If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell..

The life we receive is not always what we choose..

I wrote about what I was going through at the time..

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures..

You must base the Wisdom on Love..

Do nothing twice over..

I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to be astonished and pe….

I'm not so weird to me..

The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste..

Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really mig….

As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head.

I'm free of hypochondria-- although I've got everything else..

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits..

I've lived my life again just telling it to you..

We never thought we could ever get old..

Ain't nobody messin' with you but you.

The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the i….

I do keep pre-occupied..

Me? I slept like the dead, which I hoped wasn’t a sign of things to come..