Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen.

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.

Our love is the reason romance was created.

Understanding moulds the life of a man and governs it.

Get in over your head as often and as joyfully as possible.

That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.

The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.

Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

The Secret of living is giving

The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!