Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new kind of black man altogether, one who got to use his mind.

But if we do not like the person we have learned to be, should we just sit in front of our fufu, doing nothing? I think, James, that maybe it is possible to make a new way.

History is Storytelling.

Evil is like a shadow. It follows you.

We can’t go back to something we ain’t never been to in the first place. It ain’t ours anymore. This is.

... as a reminder that a white man could still kill him for nothing.

he knew in his body, even if he hadn’t yet put it together in his mind, that in America the worst thing you could be was a black man. Worse than dead, you were a dead man walking.

No one forgets that they were once captive, even if they are now free.

Hard work works harder than luck!

The innocent curiosity of children gives them astounding courage.

But, even when angry, she had a voice that would put finches in their place and lull them to silence.

Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

We are formed by what we desire

Young people want you to be real with them.

Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.

I want to manufacture a feud.

For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.