Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

The device of "rejection" may temporarily cover up anxiety, but it does not bestow peace of mind and emotional security.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

I'd like to say "thank you" on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition.

Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the way...That's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We couldn't've come from anything--fish, maybe, but not monkeys. I don't believe in the evolution of fish to monkeys to men. Why aren't monkeys changing into men now? It's absolute garbage. It's absolutely irrational garbage, as mad as the ones who believe the world was made only four thousand years ago, the fundamentalists.

The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out, they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that?