What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

The real tragedy of such narrow provincialism is that we see people as entities or merely as things. Too seldom do we see people in their true humanness.

Yes we have learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we have not learned the simple art of walking the earth as brothers and sisters.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

Come at once if convenient—if inconvenient come all the same. S.H.

Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller.

Black men are not so passive that they must have Black women speak for them. Even my fourteen-year-old son knows that. Black men themselves must examine and articulate their own desires and positions and stand by the conclusions thereof. No point is served by a Black male professional who merely whines at the absence of his viewpoint in Black women's work. Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.

That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversations. It's like a palm tree by the ocean that endures the greatest winds because it knows how to gracefully bend.

The person who's in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.

At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.