Everyone you have ever loved in your life becomes a part of your soul. They never leave. They're always inside you, and you can bring them out whenever you want.

I had come to the canyon with expectations. I wanted to see snowy egrets flying against the black schist at dusk

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity ... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.

It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people.

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

Let us leave hurry to slaves.

The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world.