That We Arrived At Fifty Years Together

That's What Being Young Is All About. You Have The Courage And The Daring To Think That You Can Make A Difference. You're Not Prone To Measure Your Energies In Time. You're Not Likely To Live By Equations.

See, I Don’t Expect To Win A Prize For Stoic Control And Dignity At Mourning Time. Death Deserve Tantrums. Beating Back Shocked Indignation, Kicks In The Groin, Stones, Classified Unacceptable, Not To Be Tolerated, Not To Be Wooed, Not To Be Conspired With. Only Then Can Music, Dance, Movies, Plays, Rap Be About Life. Only Then Can Life Be Cherished And Adored.

Spike Lee Made Such A Difference In Terms Of Black Filmmakers, The Subtleties - Those Authors, Those Writers Who Write From Love, And Those Who Write From That Lofty Position Of Superiority.i Felt He Took Aspects Of The Black Experience In America And Held It Up For Us To See. He Tried To Put It In Perspective. He Did Put It In Perspective In His Unique Way.

Revolutionaries Don't Get Job Security. They Compete With Rats For Cheese And With Strays For Shelter--after The Big Bullets Make Feet Out Of Their Knees.

You Just Try To Do Everything That Comes Up. Get Up An Hour Earlier, Stay Up An Hour Later, Make The Time. Then You Look Back And Say, ‘well, That Was A Neat Piece Of Juggling There -- School, Marriage, Babies, Career.’ The Enthusiasms Took Me Through The Action, Not The Measuring Of It Or The Reasonableness.