As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, d--n lies, and statistics.

Mark Twain

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

Oscar Wilde

Find a job you love and you'll never have to work again.

Anonymous

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leansUpon his hoe and gazes on the ground,The emptiness of ages in his face,And on his back the burden of the world.Who made him dead to rapture and despair,A thing that grieves not and that never hopes,Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw?Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow?Whose breath blew out the light within this brain?

Edwin Markham, The Man with the

The Silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody.

Gerhard Kocher

If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

Source Unknown

The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.

Leland Stanford

If my life was a hole, it would be deep, filled with melancholy and sadness.

James Dye

I went to a garage sale. How much for the garage? It's notfor sale.

Steven Wright

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

Andrew Young

Home -- that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

Lydia Maria Child

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

Lord Quintin Hogg Hailsham