When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.

One for whom bread- food- is not enough.

Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most; when they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning - because that ain't the time at all... When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.

Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.

That's what being eccentric means--being natural.