Mine Was An Easy Ride Compared To

I Didn't Run Into Racism Until We Moved To Nassau When I Was Ten And A Half, But It Was Vastly Different From The Kind Of Horrendous Oppression That Black People In Miami Were Under When I Moved There At 15. I Found Florida An Antihuman Place.

I Have A Kind Of Respect - A Worshipful Attitude, Even - For Nature And The Natural Order And The Cosmos And The Seasons.

I Think The Way I Want To Think. I Live The Way I Want To Live.

Accept That Environment Compromises Values Far More Than Values Do Their Number On Environment.

We're All Imperfect, And Life Is Simply A Perpetual, Unending Struggle Against Those Imperfections.