“I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.”

I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.

Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.

It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.

I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world — constantly. The world or ‘life’ may seem to more often overwhelm the human being’s capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.

American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.

Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists – nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.

That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.

This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn’t seem to give an answer, we create one.

[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture — in front of us — our own little mirage that we think is the future.

I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

One for whom bread- food- is not enough.

Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so – doubly dynamic – to be young, gifted and black.

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

There are no insect eggs in my food.” Mrs. White reiterated. You should use that in your advertising,” Nate suggested.

Don’t count your eggs until the chicken’s laid them.

There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

A true buddy is a person who thinks that you’ll be a fantastic egg although he is aware that you are somewhat cracked.

When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I’m really into eggs Benedict in the morning.

There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.