A strangely reflective even melancholy day. Is that because unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?

I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk and I began to write. The result for better or for worse is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

Now the essence the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so and lo it presently turns out to be so.

That's the true spirit of Christmas people being helped by people other than me.

Close your bodily eye that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness that its effect may work back from without to within.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

We are free but not to be evil not to be indifferent to human suffering not to profit from the people from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work sunshine exercise soap plenty of fresh air and a happy contented spirit.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic that really comes out of the culture that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.