Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.

The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.

Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.

I guess I just take things as they come now, as far as that goes. I get really excited to do the project, but I don't think too much beyond that.

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

It's just so hard to feel good, you know?

Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.

For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

Innately within us, resides the Spirit which wants to enlighten you, to give the peace, the bliss and the joy of our being.

Might his last glance behold the glorious ensign of the Republic still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in all their original lustre.

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.