Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.