Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor.