Paul Williams

If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.