"I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish."

"We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it."

"Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly."

"We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone."

"The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence."

"Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem."

"It is a radiant truth that he who inspires courage in a single soul has led a monumental campaign."

"Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison."