Service is the highest form of prayer as far as I am concerned.
We 've lost something else: the relationship between men and women.
If God is love, then God has no stepchildren to love.
The African had opinions about the universe that eventually turned out to be true.
When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste in food - you are a prisoner to those people.
I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.