If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences

The locust has no kingJust noise and hard languageThey talk me over

Why look so far?When it is so near!

If you build it well, a satisfaction comesAn honor to say I built that with fidelity, Purpose, value and integrity

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

Anyway, if you needed something really dangerous, get a gun. It's easy, it's cheap, and it's the American way.

Simple statements are to be prized more highly than less simple ones because they tell us more; because their empirical content is greater; and because they are better testable.

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.

I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.

Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

Truth in drama is elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive.