My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.
Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.
Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.
I am the history of the rejection of who I am
My heart is not peripheral to me.
... the histories of Blacks and Jews in bondage and out of bondage, have been blood histories pursued through our kindred searchings for self-determination. Let this blood be a stain of honor that we share. Let us not now become enemies to ourselves and to each other.