Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it's always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.

A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.