Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Oh, I'm impressed with Lorraine Hansberry. She was a genius at whose feet I could sit. "

Related Quotes:

" Marriage, like love, is an aspiration. It's a process. "

" I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so deep. "

" Racism is a very insidious thing. It's dangerous to the psyche, to mind and body. It erodes the self-confidence. And I don't know how we get through it. "

" I pray with my whole soul that the divide-and-conquerers among us will not triumph over us. We need each other in this world so desperately. "

" I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on. "

" There is a place for people 65 and older that no other age group can fit. We have nothing to lose. Some of us have a couple pennies. We can go out now and really be revolutionaries. "

" The Divine Impulse - it's always safe to follow it. We've got to trust it and go wherever it takes us. Especially women. "

" I respect the fact that a director has studied the text and the road map of work before us, the subtleties, interconnections, underpinnings... His job is to paint the entire picture and knows all the colors that have to be in it. "

" The white actresses I have known have been allowed to do 10 times more than I shall ever do. "

" It is so calming, marriage. "

" Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women in America. "

" Black History Month is fine, but we need more months of the year to celebrate all the people on this earth. After all, we're all creatures of the same God. "

" OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head. "

" The greatest gift is not being afraid to question. "

" We women have a great function to perform. The world needs us. "

" I really don't believe in retiring as long as you can breathe. "

" I'm proud of doing 'Long Day's Journey into Night,' for which I won an ACE award. "

" I'm very much interested in getting prisons off the stock market. I'm very much interested in upgrading the public school system... and taking a second look at capital punishment. "

" One reason I didn't trust my writing for so long was that I always considered myself a serious dramatic actor. But people would always laugh when I shared my writing with them. It took my husband to help me see that I really am part humorist. "

" I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along. I love the people I love. I didn't care whether they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist... anything but a racist. "

" African-Americans have a lot to teach the world. "

" God has use for all the old people. "

" Marriage is more complex than we think. "

" Is it safe and sane to only have one political and economic system by which everyone in the world can live? Or can we explore and share? God never made one of anything. "

" My stepmother wanted to be an actress. "

" You should always be prepared to win. But as much as I tell myself that, I've accepted another kind of role. Racism undercuts expectation, something like that. I'm not saying that to excuse myself from anything, but I've lived all this time, and things don't happen. "

" Just staying together is not a real virtue, if you're not happy. Or you're being denied. Or one person is being squashed. Or you really don't love each other; you're just there out of habit. That doesn't work, no matter how many years you stay together. "

" I didn't have the kind of talent or personality that kept me dreaming about Hollywood. They don't hire little colored girls to do this or that. After I got that in my head, I took another direction. "

" I think the poets and musicians, they belong to everybody. "

" I shined shoes; I did windows. "