Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way

The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former . . .

The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.

Doubt is the ally of hope, not its enemy, and together they made all the blessing he had.

It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it.

Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere.

The greater the fruit a tree bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.

This didn't sound good. It sounded like the optimism was escaping from him.

Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?

Faith gives self-confidence, self-courage and strength.

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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that similar. Sometimes I think it's as basic as not wanting to get dirty.

'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.

In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

Time discovers truth.