I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.

Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the threshold of his potentialities without a culture in which he participates. Conversely, no civilization has in it any element which in the last analysis is not the contribution of an individual.

In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.

No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled others. Each culture is a system of values which may well complement the values in another.

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.