I ask and wish not to appear More beauteous, rich or gay: Lord, make me wiser every year, And better every day.
How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?
You can't have people listen to you unless you come to their world and then bring them to yours.
The best way to describe myself would be. . . unpredictable.
No matter how much good things are going on around you, you still have them little negative things that just wanna come out in front. But you bottle them in because you have so many other great things, but they still there.
But what love got to do with it when you don't love yourself ?
Color don't tell if people Black. It's the soul.
Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.
Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.
The social revolution. . . cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.
Scholarship can find little to say about the obvious.