All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

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.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Nothing is black or white.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.