The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
I think the best approach is not to be too much like the thing that they are referring to, see it as a guide.
God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.
The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.