The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination.

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

Life is like a balloon; you must put something into it to get the best possible results.

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast

Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord.

Understanding is not absolutely final.What's now right could be wrong later.

I reject the notion that we must tell girls that the only way to be valid human beings is to turn themselves into boys.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

If I'd known I was gonna live this long (100 years) I'd have taken better care of myself.

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

It was a weird sensation. Like getting caught eavesdropping, or lying, or sitting on the toilet and having the bathroom walls suddenly drop away.

I'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice.

Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?

In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of jihad.