One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.

There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.

One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up.