The past is but the beginning of a beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

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.

Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

I think I jump around more when I'm alone.

Blessed are those who are so naive that they do not know what they cannot do.

I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst.

The designs are more about the whole thing rather than the details, and if I were to do the big shapes I do, color would maybe be too much. Pink or red would push it all over the edge.

Drought never brought dearth.

I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency

Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.