People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.
I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.
If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.
You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens?
The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].
The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.
As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.