Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head

I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act. I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person.

After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love. So many things, so many people, depart! And we can only repossess them in our minds.

The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.

You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.