It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened to you and all it was was just pain, all it did was hurt and so it was all over, all finished, all right.

Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.

As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.