Now I understand that all great teachers love us. This is essentially what makes them great. I also understand that it is this love that never dies, and that, having once experienced it, we have the confidence always exhibited by well-loved humans, to continue extending this same love.

continuing to love with depth and tenderness honors revolution at its highest success.

Be what they do not want: Be thoughtful. Be skilled at loving. Be of good heart. Be of the world tribe.

You telling me I won't even be able to love my own say, say Miss Eleanor Jane. No, say Sofia. That's not what I'm telling you. I'm telling you I won't be able to love your own son. You can love him just as much as you want to. But be ready to suffer the consequences. That's how the colored live.

I believe that the truth about any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together, and all their different meanings make one new one. Each writer writes the missing parts to the other writer's story. And the whole story is what I'm after.

To love someone over many years is all the opportunity you need to learn how to love them back from anywhere.

What happened to the man I love?'... 'Albert knew as well as me that love would have to go some to be better than ours. Us had the kind of love couldn't be improve. That's what I thought.

I knew how much my mother loved me by her love and patience with my child.

the only way to stop making somebody the serpent is for everybody to accept everybody else as a child of God

But all things look brighter because I have a loving soul to share them with.

The American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us.

All our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common.