One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Our first and last love is self-love.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro!. . . Black is powerful.
The images we see, as a culture, help define and expand our dreams, our perceptions of what is possible. Pictures of who we are help us visualize who we can be.
When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud.
Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.