Nature expresses a design of love and truth.
If you don't like the situation, if you are afraid and can't deal with it, nothing wrong with your legs, get out of there.
I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.
Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.
Each generation must assume the responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the definition of their being on earth that in the final analysis is nationhood.
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.
I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.
I want kids who are going to go out there and compete, lay it all on the table. I think the big thing about this game is you have to care a lot about it.
Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You can find yourself insensibly twisting them round to suit your theories.