Serious history was the West, and the West was white.

I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.

The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible-that is precisely why they are so precious.

Anyone can make a baby, but it takes a man to be a father.

You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets.

To question what I see, then to question what I see after that, because the questions matter as much, perhaps more than, the answers.

You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.

My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own.

I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.

She had wanted her son to stand for what he believed and to be respectful. And he had died for believing his friends had a right to play their music loud, to be American teenagers.

I found that the same softness which once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories.

The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.

A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music that song that vibration of God that was inside of me.

Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

Laws die, books never.

Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!