I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

...one of the best things about running is that no matter how fast you've run in the past, running fast in the future does not come easily or with any guarantees.

I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

Make yourself as happy as possible, and try to make those happy whose lives come in touch with yours. But to attempt to right the wrongs and cease the sufferings of the world in general is a waste of effort.

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.