A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.

Virtue knows no color line.

Those who commit the murders write the reports.

I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

The appetite grows for what it feeds on.

It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

Our world ends and some people never understand how much we really loved them.

I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.

If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

Not knowing what's happening, from script to script, as an actor and as a character, lends itself to the same tension and anxiety of not knowing what's happening.

Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat.

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.