Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

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

The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.

We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh, who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go.

An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger.