Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.
It's amazing what you can do in this game with a heart and a brain
I don't mind the job of saying to white people, "Yes, this is what I think you need to know, this is what I think you've been missing. " And it's my job to educate white folks every day.
Our hearts and souls are always the departing point for all thought, feeling and action.
Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
I think everybody has a hard time connecting, but as you get older and you want more and you expect more and you know more, it's just different. If you start wanting too much from it without it naturally unfolding, then that makes it bad. If you start not wanting anything, then you are not serious. I mean it's just this conundrum of issues.