The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.
Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.
When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
[The Yippie demonstrations] were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society. . . and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason. . . Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.
You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
In case of dispute, the umpire shall throw it straight into the field.