The desire to reach hearts is wise

But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

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'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.

To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.

To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.