“I just realized that sleep sometimes is the only precious wage for the hard working man.”

“For twenty-seven years I was told and believed it to be true, that if you really liked someone, you'd wish her/him to 'stay the way s/he is'.Today I know that I was not wrong, but my view was limit...”

“To me bathtubs are the epitome of luxury. Either you have no money to own one or you have no time to use one.”

“Titles are granted or inherited, nobility isn't. Whatever paper we receive, be it of material or immaterial value it will never exceed the value of your character being loved by people!”

“Don't leave the dream, lead your dreams!”

“What if you'd live every day as if you were our society's future and hope?”

“No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of...”

“Racial prejudice has always been a difficult topic for me. On several occasions I've withdrawn from conversations that devolved into white bashing. I can never make a general negative statements ba...”

“My story has more than a "great white hope" plot. I loved and respected Tom because he was a servant of God who happened to be white, just as I feel I am a servant of God who happens to be black an...”

“If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.”

“it ain't as hard as picking cotton”

“It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so.”

“Ill never forget the magic of our Saturday nights. Special moments carved in my mind by you the sculptor of my love. Lets dance the night away. Who needs music, when your heart already sings to me.”

“The morning was, therefore, a mixture of a plenitude of densities, from the presence of the placid birds, to the mundane premonition, to the spring of small glisters which accompanied that autumnal...”

“... after daybreak is when I will already have died. At that moment I will only know of beautiful things: the certainties, the desires. When the sun bathes me, I will be something else: without mir...”