Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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.

Be fearless. Be bold. Be Magic.

He who will not reason is a bigot he who cannot is a fool and he who dares not is a slave.

Touch is our most highly developed sense when we are born, and it remains a fundamental mode of communication throughout a baby's first year and an important influence throughout a person's life.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.

I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.

The place where failure happens is also the place where courage lives.

Each moment of life is a step toward death.

When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story.