As a fast player, I want to receive the ball facing the opposition goal, which gives me more vision.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

America, now is not the time for small plans.

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.

The time to save God's Dream is now. The people to save God's Dream are you.

To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the 'what is next' of our lives. Without dreams and goals, there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

I have a dream, that one day on the red hills of Georgia...

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid...

If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core -- the fountain -- of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From Poetry is Not a Luxury)

Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change... —Audre Lorde, born #otd

The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.