The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.

Contrails are denser and block sunlight much more than natural cirrus clouds.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception.

Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.

I feel responsible to my people to portray them the way we should be.

Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth.

And I'm not a micromanagement guy. I prefer to spend my time doing other stuff than that.

grief is an illness I can't recover from.