One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

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.

It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.

Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams.

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

Lila walked by with her nose in the air. In a straight line behind her, six obedient kindergartners waddled like baby geese, singing in unison, 'Row, row, row your yacht...

What is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place.

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

Screw you and your 38,000 twitter followers!

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

Singers- nothing sounds like you. For better or worse-there is only 1 of you. Don't homogenize your sound by making it just like the next.

Every person shall be free to do good ' at his own expense.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.