Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.

To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.

... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races and creeds. this we must remember. there are many of our people who hate the poor of the white race, and they hate us. the people in this town living by the river who work in the mills. people who are almost as much in need as we are ourselves. this hatred is a great evil, and no good can ever come from it... the injustice of need must bring us all together and not separate us. we must remember that we all make the things of this earth of value because of labor.

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.

the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.