I Was Born Black And Female.

The Thing That Makes You Exceptional, If You Are At All, Is Inevitably That Which Must Also Make You Lonely.

Seems Like God Don't See Fit To Give The Black Man Nothing But Dreams - But He Did Give Us Children To Make Them Dreams Seem Worthwhile.

[t]here Is Only One Large Circle That We March In, Around And Around, Each Of Us With Our Own Little Picture -- In Front Of Us -- Our Own Little Mirage That We Think Is The Future.

I Happen To Believe That Most People - And This Is Where I Differ From Many Of My Contemporaries, Or At Least As They Express Themselves - I Think That Virtually Every Human Being Is Dramatically Interesting. Not Only Is He Dramatically Interesting, He Is A Creature Of Stature Whoever He Is.

A Status Not Freely Chosen Or Entered Into By An Individual Or A Group Is Necessarily One Of Oppression And The Oppressed Are By Their Nature (i.e., Oppressed) Forever In Ferment And Agitation Against Their Condition And What They Understand To Be Their Oppressors. If Not By Overt Rebellion Or Revolution, Then In The Thousand And One Ways They Will Devise With And Without Consciousness To Alter Their Condition