Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.

Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living.

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.