If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards.
Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there!
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
. . . Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent. . . . They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities. . . . The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.
One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.
Yeah Jesus could turn water in to wine, but he didn't share. Douche.
I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.
If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.
It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.