I Was Born Black And Female.

Obviously The Most Oppressed Of Any Oppressed Group Will Be Its Women

Though It Be A Thrilling And Marvellous Thing To Be Merely Young And Gifted In Such Times, It Is Doubly So - Doubly Dynamic - To Be Young, Gifted And Black.

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

When A Man Knows That The Abstraction Ten Exists - Nothing On Earth Can Stop Him From Looking For The Fact Of Eleven.

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.