“Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.”

“If you're going to play the game properly you'd better know every rule.”

“One thing is clear to me: we, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.”

“Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.”

“I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.”

“What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.”

“The validation of your dreams is not in the colour of your skin but in the quality of your heart.”

“I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, i wonder.”

“There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians.”

“Be not discouraged black women of the world, but push forward, regardless of the lack of appreciation shown you.”

“My grandmother and my two aunts were an exhibition in resilience and resourcefulness and black womanhood. They rarely talked about the unfairness of the world with the words that I use now with my ...”

“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You hear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you, we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in...”

“Your skill, strength, and overall survival are offensive to some people. Those are definitely not your people.”