'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.

Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.