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

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

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

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

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.

Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most; when they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning - because that ain't the time at all... When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.

Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.