I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and - I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

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

What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't nothing as precious to me...There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else--

American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.