We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.
We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.
Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you - a real and objective danger.
That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.
We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.
If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.
I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.
Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.
Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.
Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life.
The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things.
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.
Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.
I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.
J'ai des papillons noirs tous les jours (I have black butterflies every day)
Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.
Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.
The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.
