America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.