But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.

All literature is protest.

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.

Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!

I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in.

Nobody's perfect... Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.

Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid... you should always be aiming for a top half finish

Being a role model, you just got to watch what you do.

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.

We have a team in Nevada that is looking for licensed cultivators to grow Chong's Choice. Hopefully recreational passes this year and we can go full force.