"Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind."

“I believe in salvation through economic, social, and spiritual freedom.”

“Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.”

“The Islamic ideology is a political ideology based on a religion.”

“The colored woman of to-day occupies, one may say, a unique position in this country. In a period of itself transitional and unsettled, her status seems one of the least ascertainable and definitive of all the forces which make for our civilization. She is confronted by both a woman question and a race problem ...”

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.112, Rowman & Littlefield

“In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must be familiar with the forms of expression peculiar to the French language. The situation is very similar when we attempt to express in mathematical symbols a condition proposed in words. First, we must understand thoroughly the condition. Second, we must be familiar with the forms of mathematical expression.”

“I think people realise that I'm happy with what I've achieved.”

Source : "Sofía Vergara stars in 'Meet The Browns,' strives for a lead role". Interview with Francis Rodriguez, www.nydailynews.com. March 20, 2008.

“I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.”