I am a teacher. I should be giving tests, not taking them.

My father believes with his entire soul that the meek shall inherit the earth. My children will inherit the earth but they will not be meek.

Are we praying?" "If you have to ask, you probably aren't.

She placed her hands, one on each of his shoulders, stood on her toes and kissed him on the lips. He waited, enjoying the moment like none before.

Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity.

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.

We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free.

Everyone loves a girl who can rise to a crisis.

Criticism involves taking a position, Mr. Day. How long has it been since you took a considered position on anything important?

Only one person can own any plate at a time. It belongs to the pitcher, or it belongs to the batter, Aiken, but not to both. You understand.

Do a lot of questions mean you are really smart or really dumb?

A kiss is the only thing you can throw at someone without being held criminally responsible.

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty.

A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever…it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

Ultimately, we have to have the wall on the border. If we don't have the wall, we are doing nothing.

Running for president is the new selfie.

You’re going to get what I think is the truth, and it’s going to be raw.

Death is Life's high meed.

The portal into people's hearts is being interested in them.