The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.

Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.