Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate it goes on to become.

Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know or to admit the change and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

In a decaying society art if it is truthful must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

I share the anger but ultimately to govern this country it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.

I did not think that I was angry but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.

Shock confusion fear anger grief and defiance. On Sept. 11 2001 and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.

It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

I know no subject more elevating more amazing more ready to the poetical enthusiasm the philosophical reflection and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety such beauty such magnificence?

The best rules to form a young man are to talk little to hear much to reflect alone upon what has passed in company to distrust one's own opinions and value others that deserve it.

Always vote for principle though you may vote alone and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

One travels more usefully when alone because he reflects more.