I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the TREES as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when PEOPLE began to SPEAK bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can GO everywhere with a good feeling.

An INFALLIBLE METHOD of conciliating a TIGER is to ALLOW ONESELF to be devoured.

Most of the GREAT books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've READ scores of them, and MAINLY they MAKE me FEEL guilty.

In a storm of struggles, I have TRIED to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to PROTECT self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and WORRY can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.

I'm a POSITIVE MAN.

I ain't afraid to tell the world that it didn't take school STUFF to help a FELLA PLAY BALL.

Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now HELD as SLAVES in this COUNTRY were born free, and that they are slaves now is the sin, not of those who introduced the race into this country, but of those, and those ALONE, who now hold them and have held them in SLAVERY from their birth.

I think everybody's TRYING to get to a place in themselves where they CONQUER what they was afraid of; they ACHIEVE some of their LIFE goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring CHILDREN into the EARTH, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, IMPERFECT, and without the RIGHT to live.