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.

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

The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or friend above God's will. Let the church cry amen to this!

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.