You can't say I don't sound like a N.Y. rapper it's because I don't wanna sound like nobody else.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families second families, perhaps I should say.
I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
There's this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they say that you need to separate class from race is that they are really just saying that people of color should come second.
We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?
The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power lust nor stupidity are good motives.
