It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

I'm independent as a hog on ice and a hog on ice is dead, cold, well-preserved and don't need a mother'grabbin, thing.

your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you.

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.