In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat. )
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.
Only ways you can keep folks hating is to keep them apart and separated from each other.
I believe deeply in a common humanity. The black man belongs to the family of man. One part of that family is out of control - like a virus or cancer - and that is the white man. He and his technological society are bent on destroying the world. Everywhere the white man has gone with his empire, he has destroyed people, races, societies, cultures, and in the course of it, has sterilized himself. He is completely the mechanical man: without heart, without soul. He is the Tin Man of The Wizard of Oz. But I don't believe that all the white people in the world are no good.
Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.
I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.
Today, we are tabling a motion seeking the support of the House for the Government's decision to renew our military mission against ISIL for up to an additional 12 months. Our objectives remain the same: we intend to continue to degrade the capabilities of ISIL, that is, to degrade its ability to engage in military movements of scale, to operate bases in the open, to expand its presence in the region, and to propagate attacks outside the region.
Collage is like a hall of mirrors. Every direction you look, you see something different and visually stimulating.
I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free. I am always suspicious of ideology. Instead, I respect men with ideas.