The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.

Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.