Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me - just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me.

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.

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

Big Walter used to say, he'd get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and say, 'Seem like God didn't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while.'

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.