"I said, 'So what?' as if I didn't care. But I cared. I had to care. that was the first time I had seen Mama crying like that. She was just standing there by herself, not moving, not making a sound as if she didn't even know it was cold out there. The sun was shining, but it was cold and there was ice on the ground. The tears just kept rolling down Mama's face as the bus started to pull away from the curb. I had to care. Those tears shining on Mama's face were falling for me. When the bus started down the street, I wanted to run back and say something to Mama. I didn't know what. I thought, maybe I woulda said, "Mama, I didn't mean what I said, 'cause I really do care." No, I wouldn'a say that. I woulda said, "Mama, button up your coat. It's cold out here." Yeah, that's what I forgot to say to Mama."
-from Manchild in the Promised Land, by Claude Brown 1965.
*good book give it a try... *
I died as a plant and rose again an animal.
I died as an animal and arose a man.
Why then should I fear to become less by dying?
I shall die once again as a man
To rise an angel perfect from head to foot!
Again when I suffer dissolution as an angel,
I shall become what passes the conception of man!
Let me then become non-existent, for non-existence
Sings to me in organ tones, "To him shall we return."
"to him shall we return"
(famous quote from Quran)
*RuMi*
-Muhammad Ali-
-Joe Louis-
...Commander of the armies of the North
...General of the philix regoins
...LoYaL servant to the TRUE emperor MarCuS Arilius
...Father to a murdered son
...Husband to a murdered wife
...And I will have my vegence in this life or the next."
-MaXiMuS-
from "Gladiator"
I'm not even sure what the game is.
-Ashleigh Brilliant-
than you can with a kind word alone
- Al Capone-
-sigmund freud-
some turn to vinegar,
but the best improve with age.
-Pope JohnXXIII-
+Vince Lombardi+
-Niccolo Machiavelli-
