What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.

He was my cream, and I was his coffee - And when you poured us together, it was something.

I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love and respect humanity.

The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.

We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?

I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.