Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.

First fight. Then fiddle.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Each body has its art.