Some day I shall be President.
. . . the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.
In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving.
Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing the speaker or writer to retire for an instant while another and greater makes himself heard. And this calling-up of the deathless dead implies also a community of mind with them, which the reader will not grudge the author lest he should seem to deny it to himself.
Vengeance only destroys the one who seeks it. (Theo- Geary’s GrandfatherAcheron)
I don't like failing at anything.
There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.
I think being born in America and growing up exclusively within the American boundaries of race and race oppression is a very different experience for those of us who grew up under the boundaries of race and race experience in the Caribbean or for those who grew up in Africa.