Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.

there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed

But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target

Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.

It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.

Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.