If i wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, i must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

what I really want to say: that what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, negroes, jews, arabs. We are all brothers.

No one ever told me i was pretty when i was a little girl. all little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't