I don't spend my life getting dressed! I have to put clothes on during the day; I don't get dressed up at all when I'm working. I'll wear jeans, or something very simple.
In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.
Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.
True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish out the fool," but in noble, generous acts of honest purpose, where truth, honor, and virtue, and a nation's welfare, are dearer than life.
Some few have a natural talent for office-bolding; very many for office-seeking.
Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.
Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.
There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.
Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner.
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing called slavery and adjustments were made. It literally destroyed millions, but it didn't destroy the inner lives of all the people who experienced it. There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally. If I had only a negative side of things to present, I think I would have much less of a drive to do it. Because what would be the point?
You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.