The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. - James Baldwin

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

I remember what it was...to be young, very young. When everything, touching and tasting-everything- was so new, and even suffering was wonderful because it was so complete.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.