I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.
Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.
In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here. ' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.
The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.
REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band.
The zenith of virtuosity, a violinist like Jascha Heifetz, the supernatural in a pianist like Vladimir Horowitz, these are performers who were so idiosyncratic and personal that to imitate them would be like filling somebody else's bottle with your wine.
Read, read, read, read, read. Read everything. You can’t work unless you know the world, and outside of living in the world the best way to learn about the world is to read about it.