She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.

You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

...evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We light upon one evil and hit it with all the might of our civilization, but only succeed in scattering it into a dozen of other forms