Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'

It is only so long as a man can retain the child in him that life can be free from those dark shadows which leave inevitable furrows on a man’s forehead.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorce from spiritual is body without soul.

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Education pervades all forms of learning.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.