I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness. Everything in the universe belongs to me.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

Because every man who fight monster become a monster too, and there be at least one woman in Kingston who think me is the killer of all things name hope.

I’ll save a spot for you on the hood of my truck.

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!

Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.

I don't believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don't have a fax.

I'm supposed to be this complete slapper, that's my reputation.