It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

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

One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.

Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.

School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.