"Yesterday is past. Tomorrow is only a promise. Only today is legal tender."

“Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals.”

“I finally realized the happy medium, 'honey blonde' was the correct color and line for me.”

“Love trumps everything. Love's decision will not always be kind to your artistic life.”

“You will respect my authori-tah!' Oberon said, in a passable imitation of Eric Cartman. I reminded him that I needed to concentrate. Sometimes dogs forget; they just get too excited.”

“I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers...creativity above fact regurgitation...individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance..... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.”

“The land is ours”: that is pretty much the end of the debate. “I will do everything in my power, forever, to fight against a Palestinian state being founded in the Land of Israel,”

“Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you where to run, you missed the starting gun.”

“There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.”

Source : "Roy DeCarava obituary" by Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2009.