I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.
The safety of the country is at stake. . . . We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat. . . . No faltering can be tolerated today.
I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't mean that we love only that which is best within us, but that we're also able to love that which is faltering, which is wounded, which is contradictory, incomplete.
At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.
A bold, vigorous assault has won many a faltering cause.
The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.