The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system of laws and practices that deny us access to the tools necessary for productive and industrious life, are available to any serious student of history or sociology.

When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.

Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.