When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.