For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become. - James Baldwin

I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it — it, the physical act.

I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.

You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.