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

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

It's dangerous, son.' 'What's dangerous?' 'When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.

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

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.