All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

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.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.