But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave...
The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness the human...
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She...
Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
People look at me and they go 'You're white you're smart you must have...
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money...
Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The...
Because I don't take money I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with...
What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.