It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

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.

and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

If a cat spoke, it would say things like 'Hey, I don’t see the problem here.

It's all in the day's work.

I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.

When an institution goes through an inflection point, it has to institutionalise itself. That institutionalisation requires governance to be put in place, governance processes.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity.

I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.