Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.
In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation. The...
First with the head and then with the heart.
The rapacious white tribe who were arriving in increasing numbers, not only as convicts but also as settlers, wanted to own everything they touched. They slashed and burned the wilderness so that they...
I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.
I had never seen a prison, nor had I even imagined one, but there is a racial memory in man that instinctively knows of these things. The architecture of misery has an unmistakable look and feel about...
In teaching me independence of thought, they had given me the greatest gift an adult can give to a child besides love, and they had given me that also.
First with the head, then with the heart, you'll be ahead from the start.
Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!
Life is all beginnings and ends. Nothing stays the same, lad.
Sweet potatoes in their jackets have a large comfort value built into them
My only desire is to teach the word o' man and leave the word o' Gawd to the pulpit men
Never take advice from a donkey.
In each of us there is a flame that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it burns within us, we cannot be destroyed.
While I told myself that each win was a small deposit on the ultimate ownership of the world welterweight crown, the enormous need in me to win touched a whole heap of other responses a fourteen years...
The smile, madame, is used by humans to hide the truth, the artist is only interested to reveal the truth.
I knew then that the person on the outside was only a shell, a presence to be seen and provoked. Inside was the real me, where my tears joined the tears of all the sad people to form the three waterfa...
When a man knows somebody cares he keeps some small place, a corner maybe of his soul clean and lit.
Cleverness is a false presumption', Doc had explained, 'it is like being a natural skater, you are so busy doing tricks to impress that you do not see where the thin ice is and before you know, poof!...
Every man is an island and at the same time also robinson crusoe.
Showing 41 to 60 of 86 results