A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.

There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.

It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.

There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.