The last thing Pa and Big Ma wanted to hear was how we made a grand Negro spectacle of ourselves thirty thousand feet up in the air around all these white people.

It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all.

I think...I think its always been you who was dying, "- Delaney

Life's challenges are opportunities for personal growth.

For Arthur, words gathered in waterfall thoughts that spilled off the page into the pools of imaginaton collecting in his head.

I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not.

I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected.

Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist!

Stocks are bought on expectations, not facts.

I think that the decision to go to war in Iraq was a mistake.

The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.

I can't be left unsupervised.