I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men’s clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

You know, when you don’t go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly ‚in the know,‘ start whispering that you’re gay. If I were gay, I wouldn’t be ashamed to admit it, but I’m not.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

The Nation of Islam’s main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn’t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people’s neighborhoods?

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

I already am a product.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

I’m selfish.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.