And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

The Amulet of Samarkand. It was Simon Lovelace's. Now it is yours. Soon it will be Simon Lovelace's again. Take it and enjoy the consequences.

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted fragments and comb them into light.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, The Things They Carried, has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.

A successful razor can be made on the principles of the Gillette patent... and the advance of anything known can be reached.

The security of faith does not make us motionless or close us off, but sends us forth to bear witness and to dialogue with all people.

We had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

A friend is someone who understand your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are.