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

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

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.

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

I happen to believe that most people - and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least as they express themselves - I think that virtually every human being is dramatically interesting. Not only is he dramatically interesting, he is a creature of stature whoever he is.

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

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.