No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough..

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around..

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly..

I is what I is, and I'm not changing..

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river..

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater..

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema..

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego..

I refused to take no for an answer..

I have seen myself backward..

The surest sign of fitness is success..

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise..

I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop t….

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power..

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right..

Where you stop is where you stop. There is always more of God..

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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose..

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be..

There's nothing wrong with being an agitator..

The something of somewhere is mostly just the nothing of nowhere..