When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
You must stand for free speech in the streets.
The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
I will tell the truth wherever I please.
I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators.
I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me
Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.
There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L. A. , a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.
You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.
What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?