It's dangerous, son.' 'What's dangerous?' 'When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.

Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

That's what being eccentric means--being natural.

Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.