For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.

We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic.

I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.

I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

Where does a black soul go to rest?

People need their history like they need air and food.

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.

I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.

Trust has no gradient.

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

Don't just do something, be there.

What the King dreams, the Hand builds.

For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

I love you dammit.""she brushed her lips teasingly against his."How much?" He made a slight sound, as if the soft kiss had affected him intensely."Without limit.Beyond forever.

Prayers truly from the heart open all doors in Heaven.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure