And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

...one of the best things about running is that no matter how fast you've run in the past, running fast in the future does not come easily or with any guarantees.

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.