When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion.
Art is an elastic sort of love.
When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was like a fairyland place.
The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling. . . How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?
He was my cream, and I was his coffee - And when you poured us together, it was something.
We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?
I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love and respect humanity.
Republicans are 'bad people who deserve a two-by-four upside their heads. '
Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel.
The Arctic is a highway. The tree limit, the scarcity of trees, freed people to walk. Particularly in the wintertime. Which connected people physically, communicatively. And mythically. The long nights of winter free people to tell. And to listen.
Winter is a terrible time for thin people - terrible! Why should it hound them down, fasten on them, worry them so? Why not, for a change, take a nip, take a snap at the fat ones who wouldn't notice? But no! It is sleek, warm, cat-like summer that makes the fat one's life a misery. Winter is all for bones.