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

I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.

No not me go find someone else to bring down

I have risked everything to tell the truth. Tell the truth