"It is a terrible thing to see a man that you know to be a man reduced to a thing."

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read."

"The world is before you, and you need not take it, or suffer it, as it is, but can remake it, and remake yourself."

"The story of the Negro in America is the story of America. It is not a pretty story."