In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion.
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.
When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn't put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular. There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. After all we have been through, just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating.
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience. . . from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.
I can’t believe I’m mated to someone who’s allergic to me. (Ravyn) You? I’m the one who should be having a hissy. How do I introduce you to people? Hi, this is my…what? Significant other? Mate? Pet? (Susan)
Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.