Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.

It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night.

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.

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.

In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.