Y’all dropped the ball and you should be shamed.

And one of my absolute favorite quotes of all-time, one that I've adopted as one of my greatest life mottos: Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."

At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.

In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.

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.

Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.

I pray for humility because that comes from inside out. And what humility does for one, is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come, but who may be here and needs me.