A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. |
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. |
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. |
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent. |
Achievement brings its own anticlimax. |
All God's children need traveling shoes. |
All great achievements require time. |
All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood. |
Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone |
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. |
Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rainbow in the clouds. The University of Cincinnati is really a possibility of hope; it is a rainbow. |
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. |
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. |
At the worst of times, there's the possibility of seeing hope, ... That's why that song is so important right now. |
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. |