Katz traces the courageous role of Black women in settling the West (and] deftly shows how these pioneering spirits helped stabilize early communities in Texas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere.

Sure to prove indispensable for the study of Black Power.

Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.

I am not in it for the success, I am in it for the victory...nothing less.

How can we tell when trouble shall arise?

Reflection can be its own reward.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.

... our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.

Music is really something that makes people whole.