To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.

Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.

The Complex of color...every colored man feels it sooner or later. It gets in the way of his dreams, of his education, of his marriage, of the rearing of his children.

Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

Biology transcends society.

The old aphorisms are basically sound. First impressions are lasting.

If you reverend God, you shall respect all souls.

We need to see better to be better.

Change requires one to start now here or nowhere. Both places require one to pass through the same starting point – today, right now” from Cinderella In Focus

I'll love you forever, even when I can't.

I'd hate to compare anyone with Sugar Ray Robinson, but Donald is the closest thing to Robinson I've ever seen

Part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord.

They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.

Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).

Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?

Testing her sexuality, she thinks she's caught a beautiful fish, when in reality, she's netted a shark.