Every tub sits on its bottom.

I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

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

Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.