You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them.

Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.

I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.