All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.

I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

I also wear a hat or a very tightly pulled head tie when I write. I suppose I hope by doing that I will keep my brains from seeping out of my scalp and running in great gray blobs down my neck, into my ears, and over my face.

No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.