Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.

But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.

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

Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.