The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

And chiefly thou, O spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st. Thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sattest brooding on the vast abyss, And madst it pregnant.

De?ersiz bir yetenek olan politika de?ildir, Bir ki?iye ya da ?iire kahramanl?k unvan? veren.

To break men off particular sins, and not to break their hearts, is to deprive ourselves of advantages of dealing with them.

Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.

Weeds don't know they're weeds.

Alexandra's fat bare toes, corned and bent by years in shoes shaped by men's desires and cruel notions of beauty

Your reputation is what you're perceived to be, Your character is what you really are