The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.
Freedom is a system based on courage.
We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.
Americans are artisans in freedom.
Freedom is the privilege of exercising responsibility.
His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.
I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it; we’ve forgotten to talk about anything. We only waste it.
I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.
Youth is a terrible thing: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and fancy costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand
Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.
It is not, what a lawyer tells me I do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Poetry is another name for a person’s telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and one’s own perceptions.
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.
Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that they do not exist at all.
As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed to offend everybody's comfortable prejudices of who I should be.
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
