"Course you been hurt. You was born to hurt. What make you wanna forget somethin that important? Power that’s worth so…"

"The ultimate test on the way to establishing an ideal civilization encouraging ideal human behavior was to look brave…"

"You are the man newly arriving at history’s worm-ravaged door, the woman whose shadows are salves upon the bleeding b…"

"Some of the smartest people in the world never talk cause they got more sense than everybody else."

"Beauty will snatch us by the heart and love us until we are raw with understanding."

"“Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.”"

"And now we step to the rhythm of miracles."

"Whereas it might be erroneous to claim that the literature, art, and music of the Harlem Renaissance revolutionized t…"

"A strategic use of black culture could help generate a more efficient use of American democracy,and democracy more ef…"

"Entire islands and groves of memory suddenly sprung up and I found myself face to face with a deeper awareness of wha…"