I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder-in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.

I keep on dying, Because I love to live

I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don't feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don't like the destination and you look behind and you don't want to return to that place, step off the road.