Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales? If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.

He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.

You build your 'COURAGE MUSCLE' daily, by being courageous in little things. Just do right.

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.