Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!
I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.
I refused to take no for an answer.
The air is the only place free from prejudices.
If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets.
It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.
History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.
Writers and reporters need to remind themselves they're not to be judged solely by the number of clicks or eyeballs on a given story, but there is this other value and this other important mission, and the key is balancing the two so that you stay alive long enough, whether you're an individual writer or whether you're a whole news organization, to keep doing what you're doing but that you don't get so driven by that that you forget that what you're supposed to be doing in a higher sense is informing people, is elevating the debate and not lowering it.