I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

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

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.

Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

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

It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end--we also cannot see how it changes. And it is very odd by those who see the changes--who dream, who will not give up--are called idealists...and those who see only the circle we call them the "realists"!