America, what happened to your optimism, your new frontiers, your simple Rockwell dreams? I'm plunging into your night, America, pushing myself deep into your heart like a knife, but the blade of my weapon is hope.
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.
Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
We all abhor terrorists, but we have to treat them as dangerous to all of us, not to any one particular country.
If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
If not met promptly and decidedly, the two portions of the Union will gradually become thoroughly alienated, when no alternative will be left to us, as the weaker of the two, but to sever all political ties or sink down into abject submission.
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.