Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.

I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

Step off the road. Build yourself a brand new path.

There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth is as elusive as the air. And as important as the air.