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.

Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.

The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.