Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day to day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.