Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent humanity, the mark of cruelty.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.