Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

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.

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

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.

My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah, said, "Money matters is only a matter of fancy.

I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled until I set him free.

After thirty a body has a mind of its own.

I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

Be willing to redefine yourself every day.

I lost the love of heaven above I spurned the lust of earth below I felt the sweets of fancied love And hell itself my only foe.

Who can I turn to? Who can I trust?

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.