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

Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

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

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.

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

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

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