I earn – I’m not – I don’t want to claim I’m a scholar of great stature, but I have made a certain reputation for myself, I’ve published several books, I’ve never been able to get a permanent teaching job.
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Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the two great questions: how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?
It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.
I’ve been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I’ve been controversial.
It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
Ever since I’ve become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.
In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That… was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about ‘white men.’
Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.
It seems to me in the past it’s been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn’t expected.