This is the present moment. Learn how to gobble it up without fear or guilt.
My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.
You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.
Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.
The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.
The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.
When working abroad you work pretty hard, but with time off, this is the greatest job in the world. You drive. You explore Memphis, or wherever you've landed, or go and see Dr John, or the Californian landscape. And, yes, I've had a few good meals.
Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.