A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.
You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.
People who work hard often work too hard. . . . May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.
It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.
We sucked in atheism with our canned milk.
Be patient. Let God answer your question on His schedule, not yours.
A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high state of spirituality he can understand that the kingdom of heaven is within him.
These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.