Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.

Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.

If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.

Number of things happen after I was 50. One, you are hopefully secure in what you want to do - which means that you don't spend a lot of time chewing on your knuckles about your reason for being here.Also, you're at your most beautiful. No woman is ever more beautiful than she is at 50.

The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.

Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.