I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

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.

Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone is a writer, some are written in the books and some are confined to hearts.

What are stories for if we don't learn from them?

Your greatest wildernesses lead you to your greatest Promised Lands.

when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.

By finding waste and abuse in entitlement programs, and eliminating it, we can ensure that the funds that are put into these programs go to the people that need them the most.

You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

Never get involved with someone who wants to change you

Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul.