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The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.

Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.

You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.

Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.

There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.