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.

[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture -- in front of us -- our own little mirage that we think is the future.

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

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.

Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women

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

Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?