"I have been a Negro, and I have been a woman, and I have been an American. And I have been all of these things at once."

"The white man is as much a victim of his own system as the black man."

"I want to be myself, and I want to be a woman, and I want to be an American. And I want to be all of these things without apology."

"All my life I have been fighting to be a woman. I have been fighting to be an individual. I have been fighting to be myself."

"White people are not the problem. It is the problem of white people that they think they are the problem."