I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales? If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.

I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.

To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.

We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure. When you see failure and defeats as merely part of the process to get to when.