We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.