We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated.
I dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write.
I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself. - Troy -
Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.
As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to be somehow representative of black American life, and I didn't have any women in there. And I knew that wasn't going to work.
The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system of laws and practices that deny us access to the tools necessary for productive and industrious life, are available to any serious student of history or sociology.
On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.
The great difference between the two feelings is that love is always creative, and fear is always destructive.
Nothing is as important to muscle growth as good nutrition.
He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.