The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

Language communicates in terms of what is already know

The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.

I don't want to understand Facebook.

You're more powerful when talking from your soul.

I can bear a lot but not that pall

I used to be ashamed And now I am proud. The world once was black And now it is bright. I used to walk head bent And now I stand up tall. I used to have dreams But now I have hope.

teaching meant for the hands enters most easily through the eyes.

Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.

A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.