"Folks don't do nothin' outa hate, they do it outa love. Love of self."

"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peak of the mountain and caught the honey of the sun in my hair."

"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."

"Negroes are not a race. They are a political designation."

"White people are not the problem. It is the problem of white people that they think they are the problem."