Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'

The truth is the light and the light is the truth.

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.

I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.