Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

The voices you listen to and obey determine to a large extent what you become.

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy.

I surrender my soul to the Saviour.

The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.

Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.

Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.

The day is done. I'm having fun. I think I'm dumb. Or maybe just happy.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

For every Seaman of Industry and Ingenuity, is not only a Navigator, but a Merchant, and also a Soldier.