A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
