Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those who obey the law of work.

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself.

People can only be free if they are truly educated.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.