Hillary Clinton has been portrayed as robotic, someone who is trying to approximate real human emotion.
Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.
I don't see any independent position that I'm in; it's rather inter-dependent.
You have to learn and keep learning.
The truth is that in this country you here you're more likely to be harassed, hurt, or killed if you're a minister speaking about progress for Black people than if you are a sure enough revolutionary.
Oftentimes, the way it seems to be is that our artists in particular point themselves out as spokesmen for a certain constituency in a community, and thereby place themselves in that vulnerable position.
The revolution will not be televised.
What kind of husband am I gonna be if I can't even hold my wife's hand?. . . but I realized I may not have hands to hold my wife's hand, but when the time comes, I'll be able to hold her heart. I don't need hands to hold her heart.
We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.
Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.
I always have the feeling that I'm sitting around not doing anything with my life. A little Calvinist guilt that I should be more productive.