Chess is a curse upon a man.

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.

Virtue knows no color line.

Those who commit the murders write the reports.

I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.

A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

The appetite grows for what it feeds on.

I did not find my way out of the darkness until I admitted I was lost.

People are suckers for the truth and they know it when they see it. Open your soul and they will stop and watch.

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

I'd like to introduce a man with a lot of charm, talent, and wit. Unfortunately, he couldn't be here tonight, so instead . . .

I'm the kind of person who, even after a shoot that I've loved, is always moving on. There is no gap.

Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in

A lot has transpired in my life.