fight with all your heart until you die

James Baldwin: A cop is a cop.

Nikki Giovanni: Well, a cop is a white man. [Laughter]

Baldwin: And you know, yeah, and he may be a very nice man, but I haven't got time to figure that out. All I know is he has a uniform and a gun, you know, and I have to relate to him that way, you know. That's the only way to relate to him, at all. Because one of us is gonna--One of us may have to die.

Giovanni: You know, in New York, there's a big campaign going on to humanize the, uh, policemen. And they have posterboards--uh, billboards up state, and they have a picture of this BIG cop bending over this little blonde girl, and the signs say "a nd some people call him pig." And I wanted to buy--I told a friend of mine I wanted to buy a billboard and show this big cop and this 14 year old kid with thirty bullets in him, and say "and some people call him peacemaker."

“No little children love me.”

“Pauline Chase, the American actress who played Peter Pan from 1906 to 1913 in New York, recounted children’s reactions to this line: “Stern voices in front have been heard calling out in reply, ‘Serves you right!’ but all are not so hard-hearted. I remember two mites being brought round, behind the scenes because they had something they wanted to say to Captain Hook, but awe fell upon them when he shook their hands (with his hook), and they could only stare at him, and say not a word. When he had gone, however, they looked very woeful, and kept repeating ‘We wanted to tell him, we wanted to tell him,’ and they explained to me that what they wanted to tell him was that they loved him.’”