[I will] totally dismantle every intelligence agency in this country piece by piece, nail by nail, brick by brick

It's time for somebody to lead all of America's niggers . . all the people who feel left out of the political process.

If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.

I have two things going for me. The first is the fidelity to my principles, and the other is my ability to show up for the fight every day. Period that.

I want balance in my life.

If Ron Dellums running for mayor gives you hope, then let's get on with it.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.

A short axe can still cut down tall trees.

I cannot love, I want to be aloneI will not love, I want to be alone

Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.

The debate's over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.

I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'

It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.

But I think the most important thing is to find the love of your life and have fun in love. And enjoy and appreciate what comes to you.

Without birds, trees would be very lonely and men too!

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.