I'm more straightforward and I speak up more than I did before. When I was younger I wouldn't speak up as much but now that I'm a mom things have changed.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood when no one can teach them anything!

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

Speaking very generally I find that women are spiritually emotionally and often physically stronger than men.

When men speak ill of thee live so as nobody may believe them.

I try to speak my points of view about black America and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

Wise men when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet give themselves the benefit of the doubt and remain silent.

Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.