Someone ought to write a novel about me.
A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind; a quiet place; and a private life.
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.
Only ways you can keep folks hating is to keep them apart and separated from each other.
I believe deeply in a common humanity. The black man belongs to the family of man. One part of that family is out of control - like a virus or cancer - and that is the white man. He and his technological society are bent on destroying the world. Everywhere the white man has gone with his empire, he has destroyed people, races, societies, cultures, and in the course of it, has sterilized himself. He is completely the mechanical man: without heart, without soul. He is the Tin Man of The Wizard of Oz. But I don't believe that all the white people in the world are no good.
Fifteen minutes of fame doesn't make a career. An article in a magazine, newspaper, interview on television or multiple print ads may stroke your ego, but nothing much else. An artist's career is a lifetime venture. Just because an artist is on top doesn't mean they are sheltered from a crash. As has been stated, the higher you climb, the harder you fall.
I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.
I don't understand what people are talking about in different rhymes glorifying jail. If you like going to bed early, getting yelled at, seeing a fight, seeing somebody getting their head split open, or fighting over the TV then that's the place for you.