"I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention."

“Scientists are supposed to live in ivory towers. Their darkrooms and their vibration-proof benches are supposed to isolate their activities from the disturbances of common life. What they tell us is supposed to be for the ages, not for the next election. But the reality may be otherwise.”

“It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.”

“Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to go a step further - our mathematicians do not know mathematics.”

“Part of being a good gymnast is being very disciplined - you have to know how to train right, eat right, sleep right.”

Source : Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com. July 31, 2012.

“Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.”

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”

“Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.”

Source : Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA

“I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.”

Source : "Ron Reagan calls Iraq war unnecessary and optional". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. June 24, 2004.