The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.

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.

Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that’s not always a bad thing.

I was just trying to remove a stain

If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man

Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.

You never know how much good you do.

You may have made a lot of wrong choices, but you’ve also made a lot of choices that were right. Focus on your good qualities. Focus on your victories. Get off the treadmill of guilt.

Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized.