The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.

I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can. But the price is enormous and people are not yet willing to pay it.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.