"With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books."

"You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values."

"Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man."

"To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like."

"Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps."