The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

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.

Life is like a prison. To survive it is through self-healing and absolute dignity.

Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.

The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.

I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.

A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.

Ask not what your community can do for you; ask what your community can not do for anyone else.

Let us all reaffirm our commitment to improving the well- being of families throughout the world.

An artist sees things not as they are, but as he is.

Peter also uses his wig as a cereal bowl... He'll some times have some, like, Top Ramen in it.

The wisest among you is he whose sustenance is the fear of Allah.