Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education.

The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.

President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.

Muffle your rage. Get smart instead of muscular.

Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back

Nothing is more important than a good education.

. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.

It would appear that the state of Mississippi has decided to maintain white supremacy by murdering children.

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

If you want to know, it was the capitalists who invented marriage in order to protect the laws of inheritance.

The term 'first-love' exists because there always more to count ahead, as pure as the previous one, as true as the one that touched your soul lately.

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.

If I had my life to live over, I'd have spent more hours in worship.

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

I'm not going to change it, because I think Mitt Romney has proven to be not a smart person.

If you can't take it, you won't make it.

Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.