No faith is our own that we have not arduously won..

We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitali….

I take things too seriously..

Wanderlust is incurable..

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained ….

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience..

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem..

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry..

How can I dispose of myself with it?.

I know my sound when i hear it. My stroke is just my stroke..

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us..

This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting of God's image in us..

Having experienced everything one time already made it easier the second time around..

Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have..

I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came ….

The bravest are the tenderest..

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves..

Some things go slow, slow, slow, and then - wham! - they're over..

I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here..

Time is 'to make'. it is not 'to have'..

Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing..