It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.

There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.

[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.

Love is never any better than the lover.

This word "LOVE" - discredited, "clicheed" - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the hope that somebody will care for you - plus our language, the language, a language - is about all we have. With everything else going on, this is what makes us, what keeps us human.

Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.