Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

I spent 30 minutes each morning rubbing my body with half a lemon to lighten my skin.

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

Art is an elastic sort of love.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just as much as it does to any of the white race... in some ways even more so, because they gave the sweat of their brow and their blood in slavery so that many parts of America could become prosperous and recognized in the world.