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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" The nature of racism is that it grinds down the soul of the man more finely than it does the soul of the woman. When you want to conquer a people or subject it, you destroy the male component. "

" Black filmmakers - I'm grateful for them. "

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" I have always been against the gangster as hero. "

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" A nation's youths shouldn't be sent off to die. "

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" 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 shined shoes; I did windows. "

" I don't think the arts would have been as meaningful to me if I hadn't grown up in Harlem. "

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" I think I have something unique that I'd like to share. "

" You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else's freedom and not worry about your own. "

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

" The economics of life is against the family. "

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

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" We are all a tiger with feelings. An elephant who never forgets. We are tiger, panther, monkey - we are all of these things, all of the life rhythms. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "