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

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.

Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education.

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.

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

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics.

Kill a politician and you're tied to the motive that made you pull the trigger.

Just Donald Trump's tenor and insulting of people is just beyond the pale.

A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.

I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two.

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

I sucked in the smell of her perfume, Viva La Juicy, and was swept away. La Juicy was part of my oxygen supply, even for the year and a half we were apart.

When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.

Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.