At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Cine n-ar dori să moară visând că moare?

Though time seems to expand or contract between idle and frantic moments, it passes the same in both: second by second. You can neither lose it or create it. Use it wisely.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember

Beloveds, you are fine, just the way you are! Perfect in your imperfection! You are divine! Growing brighter and more brilliant each day, you can accept the truth of who you are.

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.

If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.

Fashion is merely a saying: I belong to your world. I'm wearing the same uniform as your army, so don't shoot.

My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.