It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

It is not your environment, it is you- the quality of your mind, the integrity of your soul and the determination of your will that will decide your future and shape your life.

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.

The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach

Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.

For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.