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

The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.

I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and - I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations.

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

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

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

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