Tal doesn't move the pieces by hand; he uses a magic wand.
Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.
Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.
The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.
The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.
I feel lucky in that the same way I've surrounded myself with people I'm creatively comfortable with, I've surrounded myself with people who are accepting of the way that I look.
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea--if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset.