African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields.

I always say African American history is the quintessential American story. It's about perseverance and resilience - something everyone can relate to.

I derive a tremendous amount of pride in developing places that everyday people can experience. I like to create beauty in everyday lives.

The reward of a good deed is in having done it.

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.

What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.

We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment, but a way to act.

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.

I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.