Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

One would say of my life, 'born loser, had to be'- but it's not the truth. In the black community, however bad it looks, there's a lot of love and so much humo…

I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've writt…

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may no…