“I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.”

“I have a lot of energy after 2 A.M. I like to sleep in the morning. I have some problems at the start of the day.”

“The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true.”

“To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.”

“The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.”

“I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.”

“Feminity for me was discovering you when I took you for a ride on my Bajaj discover!”

“It's all part of my spirituality,as the wind softly kisses my face, and the world travels beneath me.”

“It's the ride of life the journey from here to there living and loving every moment like we have none to spare.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”

“Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.”

“The only honest way to approach the question of whiteness and blackness is to start by accepting that these are arbitrary categories that were invented in the 17th and 18th century in order to just...”

“I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never. And I don't know why I should be ...”