Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.

When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

Life is a marvelous, transitory adventure.

Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.