If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

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

If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it." Stephen Covey "It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.

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