At this time I'd like to say a few words especially to my sisters: SISTERS. BLACK PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE FREE UNLESS BLACK WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR STRUGGLE, ON EVERY LEVEL OF OUR STRUGGLE.
Charity begins at home.
Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto. I am human: nothing human is alien to me.
Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.
It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
He had supposed for years that he had no secrets from himself. Here was proof that he had a great big secret somewhere inside, and he could not imagine what it was.
You never know when it is going to happen, when you will experience a moment that dramatically transforms your life. When you look back, often years later, you may see how a brief conversation or an insight you read somewhere, changed the entire course of your life.
I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.
I figure 1000 words a day, or four pages, and sometimes I'll write more, but I'll try not to. Because I think you don't want to exhaust what it is you're writing about, so the next day you would have to gear up for a brand new scene.