Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men
Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.
It takes strong men and women to love. . . people strong enough inside themselves to love. . . without humiliation.
The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.
I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us.
Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are.
Eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.
If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.