I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women or black students behave as though they can only read blacks or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force strength and power.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society particularly blacks it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime drugs the whole bit.

Smile for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent at least since the early nineteenth century when 3 000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.