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.

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.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world -- constantly. The world or 'life' may seem to more often overwhelm the human being's capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.

Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.