“Bring up the past only if it will help to build the future, otherwise its best to be left to sleep”
“Bring the past, but only if you can build from it.”
“In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.”
“There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.”
“...repeating helps people get over sorrow. Otherwise the words build up in you, a lamentation, and you can't stop grieving.”
“Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the best of both. And it is universities that best provide them.”