“Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

“Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.”

“My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.”

“An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.”

“A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”