In America, It Is Difficult To Be

We All Suffer From The Preoccupation That There Exists... In The Loved One, Perfection.

I've Learned That I Must Find Positive Outlets For Anger Or It Will Destroy Me. There Is A Certain Anger: It Reaches Such Intensity That To Express It Fully Would Require Homicidal Rage--self Destructive, Destroy The World Rage--and Its Flame Burns Because The World Is So Unjust. I Have To Try To Find A Way To Channel That Anger To The Positive, And The Highest Positive Is Forgiveness.

You Don't Have To Become Something That You Aren't To Become Better Than You Are.

I Knew What It Was To Be Uncomfortable In A Movie Theater Watching Unfolding On The Screen Images Of Myself - Not Me, But Black People - That Were Uncomfortable.

I Never Had An Occasion To Question Color, Therefore, I Only Saw Myself As What I Was... A Human Being.