To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons |
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. |
Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes. |
When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress? |
When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress? |
You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else. |