Language is the archives of history.
I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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.
You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.
I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.
I haven't frequented a nail salon in a long time.
Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force.