I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream."

There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.

Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.

History is the key to citizenship.

I write music. I'm in a band.

I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the times. Try out different areas and not get stuck in 1978.

Do you think a man is the only creature with whom one may fall in love?

Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.

It's not just a struggle for blacks to be accepted by whites, but the other way around as well. A lot of people don't see that.

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

My devotion to my job started from a personal defeat: my first girlfriend's parents rejected me because i wasn't rich. I decided i would show them what a big mistake they had made.

Nature's book always contains the truth; we must only learn to read it.

The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you.

They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.