She moved like water, graceful and soft and lovely. Every part of me wanted to stick out my foot and trip her, just to see her stumble.

This was why I hated beautiful people. They build you up and then they destroy you. And we let 'em.

But if a girl don't have her intuition, she don't got anything.

Tell any grizzled old cutthroat a sob story about a double-cross and a broken heart and he'll eat right out of your hand.

A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. And this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate.

The Klan sees the world in terms of race and ethnicity. So do Liberals

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it, you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.

Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

...the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old.

When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.