Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.
I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires. . . We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was. . . we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
I've never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr. , esquire.
The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.
What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can't alter.