人生最大的幸福是确信我们被人爱着；因为自己而被爱，或者更确切地说，尽管自己而被爱。

To be a Negro in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.