Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest. - Lorraine Hansberry

[I am] A fool who believes that death is waste and love is sweet and that the earth turns and men change every day and that rivers run and that people wanna be better than they are and that flowers smell good and that I hurt terribly today, and that hurt is desperation and desperation is — energy and energy can move things...

Perhaps I will be a great man...I mean perhaps I will hold on to the substance of truth and find my way always with the right course

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that
which must also make you lonely.