Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

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.

This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.

I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent.... They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.... The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].

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

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.