'My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.'

'My only true regret, however, is that now that I see the world more clearly than ever, as I believe I do, I don't seem to have the time left to translate my v…

'My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.'

'I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.'

The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we end up conforming, following everyone else. We wa…

A colored is a very frightened-to-death Afro-American. A Negro is one that makes it in the system, and he wants to be white. A nigger, he's loud and boisterous…

But we [Americans] are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body …