Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.