History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

You're only as good as your last book.

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.

His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached nonviolence.

We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.