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“And what I've come to learn is that it's the manufacturer's handbook, is what I call it. It teaches us how to run our lives individually, how to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all of public policy and everything in society. And that's the reason as your congressman I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I'll continue to do that.”
Source : "Republican congressman: evolution is 'lies straight from the pit of hell'" by Alex Hern, www.newstatesman.com. October 8, 2012. 
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“I want my fights to be seen as plays that have a beginning, a middle and an end”
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“Don't get caught up on 'I'm brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.' You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492? All these names we're using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.”
Source : "The Man Who Invented Hip Hop". Interview with Zack O'Malley Greenburg, www.forbes.com. July 9, 2009.
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“We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are freedom's models in a searching world. We can be freedom's missionaries in a doubting world. The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.”
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“Imagine if the whole point of this experience on planet Earth was to just open ourselves up more fully to who we really are, without filters, without masks, without any restrictions.”
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“What I'm trying to do is be righteous. And when I say “righteous,†I don't mean God. You know? God- Righteous. I mean just when I wake up, I know I was honest to myself.”
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“I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.”
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“Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.”
Source : Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield
