“He was a nobody. Yet and still, he held the gun and therfore all of the power.”

“VOA no longer felt like a sanctuary but rather a mirage and we were desert wanderers.”

“We were all pawns easily discarded at the whims of monsters, some of whom were younger than me.”

“It was as if hell itself had taken human form and come up from the abyss.”

“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 On several occasions I've withdrawn from conversations that devolved into white bashing.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...”

“DON'T BE SO PREPARED FOR THE BATTLE,TO THE POINT YOU FIND YOURSELF UNPREPARED FOR THE VICTORY!WHEN YOU TRULY BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, YOU PREPARE FOR IT ALL!”

“PEOPLE DIE THEIR ENERGY DON'T!”

“WHEN YOU FOLLOW THE WAYS OF YOUR ANCESTORS YOU WILL NEVER BE LOST.LET YOUR ANCESTORS BE YOUR GUIDING LIGHT.”

“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...”