People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.

An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa.

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.